The value of computed tomography-derived coronary artery calcification score in coronary artery disease detection in asymptomatic hemodialysis patients

Renal Failure

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 683-688

  Patsalas, Stavros ^a   Eleftheriadis, Theodoros ^a   Spaia, Sofia ^a   Theodoroglou, Hariklia ^a   Panou, Eleni ^a   Liakopoulos, Vassilis ^b   Antoniadi, Georgia ^a   Passadakis, Ploumis ^b   Vayonas, Georgios ^a   Kanakis, Efthimios ^a   Vargemezis, Vassilis ^b  

^a 2nd IKA Hospital   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aortic pulse wave velocity; Coronary artery calcification; Exercise electrocardiography; Hemodialysis; Thallium dipyridamole scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CALCINOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RADIOISOTOPE RENOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 28644441274     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08860220500242579     Document Type: Article

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