Renal Magnetic Resonance (MR) Elastography in Healthy Volunteers (MRE_Rénale)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Device: Pneumatic Driver

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00876629

2008.529

Details and patient eligibility

About

MR Elastography is a new technique aimed at non-invasively measuring the stiffness of tissues. It has recently given interesting results in the assessment of liver fibrosis.

The objectives of the current study are:

1. to develop an imaging protocol for MR Elastography of the kidneys;
2. To calculate the stiffness of normal kidneys;
3. To evaluate the variability of the measurements of kidney stiffness by repeating the procedure twice on the same volunteers.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 40
• Signed informed consent form
• Insured by the French Social Security

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Personal or familial history of kidney disease
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Contraindication to MRI

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)