CE-US in Renal Transplantation

Exclusion Criteria

• •Specific contraindications to histologic evaluation of the kidney graft (bleeding time \> 15 min, intra-abdominal implantation of the graft)
• •Known hypersensitivity to sulphur hexafluoride or to any of the components of SonoVue.
• •Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) or clinically unstable ischaemic cardiac disease, including: evolving or ongoing myocardial infarction, typical angina at rest within last 7 days, significant worsening of cardiac symptoms within last 7 days, recent coronar artery intervention or other factors suggesting clinical instability (for example, recent deterioration of ECG, laboratory or clinical findings), acute cardiac failure, Class III/IV cardiac failure, or severe rhythm disorders.
• •Right-to-left shunts, severe pulmonary hypertension (PAP \>90 mmHg