Predictors of mortality in end-stage renal disease patients with mitral annulus calcification

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 331, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 124-130

  Al Absi, A I ^a   Wall, B M ^a   Aslam, N ^a   Mangold, T A ^a   Lamar, K D ^b   Wan, J Y ^b   D'Cruz, I A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

End stage renal disease; Hemodialysis; Mitral annulus calcification; Mortality studies; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CREATININE; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL ANNULUS CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MORTALITY; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

CALCINOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645104166     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200603000-00003     Document Type: Article

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