Clinical Significance of Persistent Global and Focal Computed Tomography Nephrograms After Cardiac Catheterization

Lisa L Chu1, Richard W Katzberg, Richard Solomon

  • 1From the *Department of Radiology, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento; †Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ‡Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; §Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT; ∥Department of Cardiology, University of California Davis Medical Center; ¶Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA; #Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; and **Division of Nephrology-Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA; and ††Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, Devaraj Urs Medical College and Hospital, Kolar, Karnataka, India.

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