Utility of POCUS (Point of Care Ultrasound) in Renal Transplantation

Abstract

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is gaining wide recognition in its bedside applications. The day-to-day practice of nephrology requires several ultrasonographic parameters for diagnosis. Hence, familiarity with basics of renal ultrasound imaging is becoming a necessary skill for every nephrologist. This review provides an overview of the normal and abnormal findings in a graft kidney and its environment throughout graft survival and after its failure. The correlative understanding of the clinical features with image findings provides the greatest advantage in applying POCUS at the bedside.