UIC Researchers Study Non-invasive Imaging for Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease
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With $3.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, UIC researchers will use noninvasive imaging to assess blood flow, oxygenation and scarring in the kidneys of patients enrolled in the study, the largest of its kind in the United States. The researchers will then compare the scans with information from biopsies to determine if kidney fMRI scans can detect chronic scarring in the kidneys.
“Chronic kidney disease is on the rise, and this has devastating consequences,” said principal investigator Dr. Anand Srivastava, associate professor in the University of Illinois College of Medicine. “The idea would be to see if these digital fingerprints of disease improve our ability to identify the lesions in the kidney or people at risk of kidney function decline over time.”