Cardiac calcifications: Fetuin-A and other risk factors in hemodialysis patients

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 150-156

  Coen, Giorgio ^a,c   Manni, Micaela ^a   Agnoli, Alessia ^a   Balducci, Alessandro ^a   Dessi, Mariarita ^a   De Angelis, Sandro ^a   Jankovic, Lijljana ^b   Mantella, Daniela ^c   Morosetti, Massimo ^b   Naticchia, Alessandro ^a   Nofroni, Italo ^d   Romagnoli, Andrea ^a   Gallucci, Massimo Taccone ^a   Tomassini, Marco ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a   Splendiani, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b GB Grassi Hospital   (Italy)

^c Department of Nephrology ^*  (Italy)

^d Department Exp Med

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; BLOOD VESSELS; DIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NUTRITION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CARDIAC CALCIFICATIONS; CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

ALBUMIN; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; FETUIN; FETUIN A; LIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA2HS GLYCOPROTEIN; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION; RISK FACTOR; BLOOD; CALCINOSIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEART DISEASE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

BLOOD PROTEINS; CALCINOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745003916     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mat.0000202606.44826.6b     Document Type: Article

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