Renal Tissue Oxygenation in Essential Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease

Animal studies suggest that renal tissue hypoxia plays an important role in the development of renal damage in hypertension and renal diseases, yet human data were scarce due to the lack of noninvasive methods. Over the last decade, blood oxygenation level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-...

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Main Authors: Pruijm, Menno, Hofmann, Lucie, Vogt, Bruno, Muller, Marie-Eve, Piskunowicz, Maciej, Stuber, Matthias, Burnier, Michel
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590788/