Is Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) elastography a useful method for predicting kidney pathology?

Purpose: Was to establish if ARFI is a useful method for predicting the kidney pathology. Methods: Our study included 110 subjects: 78 “normal” subjects (70.9%) (including healthy volunteers without known kidney pathology with normal renal ultrasonography, without history of renal disease, without supplementary investigations and hospitalized patients for various diseases with normal renal ultrasonography, normal serum creatinine and blood nitrogen urea and without proteinuria or hematuria) and 32 (29.1%) patients with various etiologies of kidney diseases. The mean age of subjects was 48.5 ± 18.4 years, 47.9% b…