Renal duplex doppler ultrasonography: A noninvasive predictor of kidney dysfunction and hepatorenal failure in liver disease
Joel F. Platt, James H. Ellis, Jonathan M. Rubin, Robert M. Merion, Michael R. Lucey – 1 August 1994 – Hepatorenal failure, a well‐recognized complication of established liver disease, is characterized by early renal hemodynamic changes (vasoconstriction) before clinically recognized kidney disease. This renal vasoconstruction (increased renal vascular resistance) should be detectable noninvasively by Doppler ultrasonography.