From the Department of Medicine, *Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and §Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Departments of †Radiology and ‡Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
Received July 29, 2006, and accepted for publication, after revision, December 29, 2006.
This study was partly supported by NIH grant numbers HL-77131, HL072255, and DK-073608, by an Award for Research in Cardiology (ARC) from the Division of Cardiovascular Disease of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, by Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, and by an equipment grant from Siemens Medical Solution.
C.H.M. and A.N.P. are grant recipients from Siemens Medical Solutions.
Reprints: Lilach O. Lerman, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905. E-mail: [email protected].