title: Contrast-enhanced MR angiography and digital subtraction angiography in living renal donors: diagnostic agreement, impact on decision making, and costs.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic agreement, the impact on decision making, and the costs of contrast-enhanced MR angiography and digital subtraction angiography in the workup of living renal donors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Contrast-enhanced MR angiography for the preoperative evaluation of renal donors is superior to digital subtraction angiography in revealing vascular anomalies and depicting parenchymal abnormalities and is less costly; furthermore, it does not lead to preoperative decisions that differ from those based on digital subtraction angiography. If contrast-enhanced MR angiography does not provide sufficient information to make a confident decision, an additional digital subtraction angiography examination should be performed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marc C J M
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Kock
authors.forename: Jan N M
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Ijzermans
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: Shahid M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: Willem
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weimar
authors.forename: Peter M T
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Pattynama
authors.forename: Gabriel P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Krestin
authors.forename: M G Myriam
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Hunink
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction / Q000191:economics; D003287:Contrast Media; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007472:Iohexol; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000191:economics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012082:Renal Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D007472:Iohexol; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA