Morphology of coronary atherosclerotic lesions in patients with end-stage renal failure

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 218-223

  Schwarz, Ute ^a   Buzello, Moriz ^a   Ritz, Eberhard ^a   Stein, Günter ^a   Raabe, Gerd ^a   Wiest, Gabriele ^a   Mall, Gerhard ^a   Amann, Kerstin ^a,b  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Coronary artery disease; Plaque structure; Uraemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0033967686     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.2.218     Document Type: Article

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