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Assessment of Vascular Function in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
Published on: June 16, 2014
[Age-related characteristics of the structure of renal arteries]
Abstract:
The investigation has been performed on 337 preparations of human kidneys and on 129 clinical angiograms of kidneys at different age without renal and cardiovascular system pathology. A complex of morphological techniques, mathematical method including, has been used. Peculiarities in architectonics of the intraorganic renal arterial vessels have been described during various age periods of postnatal ontogenesis; essential variations of the renal artery index have been revealed in newborns and adolescents. They reflect functional rearrangement of the vessels during these age periods. Six periods in formation of the renal arterial intraorganic vessels have been determined, when probability of decrease and failure of their compensatory potentialities is especially great.
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