Calcified plaque is common in the carotid and femoral arteries of dialysis patients without clinical vascular disease

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2004-2012

  Savage, Tessa ^a,c   Clarke, Amanda L ^a   Giles, Martin ^a   Tomson, Charles R V ^b   Raine, Anthony E G ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Richard Bright Renal Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c Dominion House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B mode ultrasound; Calcification; Carotid and femoral artery; End stage renal disease

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031820902     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.8.2004     Document Type: Article

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