Coronary artery calcification in renal transplant recipients

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1942-1947

  Rosas, Sylvia E ^a   Mensah, Korlei ^a   Weinstein, Rachel B ^a   Bellamy, Scarlett L ^a   Rader, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary calcification; EBCT; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22844451955     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.00955.x     Document Type: Article

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