Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MDRenal ultrasound (kidney ultrasound) is a safe, noninvasive imaging test that uses sound waves to create images of your kidneys and bladder. It helps healthcare ...

A kidney ultrasound uses high frequency sound to produce video and still images of your kidneys. Learn more about the process and its uses here.

Renal transplant elasticity ultrasound imaging: correlation between normalized strain and renal cortical fibrosis. Ultrasound Med. Biol. 39 , 1536–1542 (2013). PubMed Google Scholar ...

Residents at the Northwell Health System using point-of-care ultrasound to assess vasculature. Benefits include rapid assessment of kidney size, cortical thickness, and volume status.

Abnormality of renal outline or irregularity of cortical thickness. Renal stone or other suspected calcification. Hydronephrosis. Duplex kidney. Ignore. Renal cysts are common and are bilateral in 9% ...

The mass was located in the lateral cortex of the right kidney, and in comparison with previous ultrasound studies, appeared to have more than doubled in size to 1.6 cm (Figures 1 and 2).

A renal punch proved to be negative. Clinicians performed a bedside ultrasound, ... compared with the attenuation of the normal renal cortex.

SAN DIEGO, CA—Renal denervation using ultrasound may be more effective than radiofrequency ablation for lowering blood pressure in patients with resistant hypertension, a preliminary head-to-head ...

New results from a clinical trial testing a novel ultrasound therapy for hypertension show the experimental treatment can deliver clinically meaningful reductions in blood pressure. The treatment ...

In its first human study, 19 people with 25 kidney stones between them underwent BWL for up to 10 minutes. About 90 per cent of the stones’ volume fragmented, from up to 12 millimetres to less ...

A promising new study is documenting the long-term effects of a novel surgical procedure using ultrasound to reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension. It's hoped the one-off procedure ...