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ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2021

Non-invasive molecular imaging of kidney diseases.

Barbara M Klinkhammer, Twan Lammers, Felix M Mottaghy, Fabian Kiessling, Jürgen Floege, Peter Boor

Erratum issuedOpen access · greenAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 39 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
15.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Barbara M KlinkhammerInstitute of Pathology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1566-7129
Twan LammersInstitute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-6805
Felix M MottaghyDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital RWTH, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-6521
Fabian KiesslingInstitute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7341-0399
Jürgen FloegeDepartment of Nephrology and Immunology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.
Peter BoorInstitute of Pathology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany. pboor@ukaachen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9921-4284
Universitätsklinikum Aachen · DEMaastricht University · NLUtrecht University · NL

Funding

European Research Council 864121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In nephrology, differential diagnosis or assessment of disease activity largely relies on the analysis of glomerular filtration rate, urinary sediment, proteinuria and tissue obtained through invasive kidney biopsies. However, currently available non-invasive functional parameters, and most serum and urine biomarkers, cannot capture intrarenal molecular disease processes specifically. Moreover, although histopathological analyses of kidney biopsy samples enable the visualization of pathological morphological and molecular alterations, they only provide information about a small part of the kidney and do not allow longitudinal monitoring. These limitations not only hinder understanding of the dynamics of specific disease processes in the kidney, but also limit the targeting of treatments to active phases of disease and the development of novel targeted therapies. Molecular imaging enables non-invasive and quantitative assessment of physiological or pathological processes by combining imaging technologies with specific molecular probes. Here, we discuss current preclinical and clinical molecular imaging approaches in nephrology. Non-invasive visualization of the kidneys through molecular imaging can be used to detect and longitudinally monitor disease activity and can therefore provide companion diagnostics to guide clinical trials, as well as the safe and effective use of drugs.

Indexed as

Molecular ImagingHumansKidney Diseases

Identifiers

PMID34188207
PMCPMC7612034
OpenAlexW3173951701

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