Evaluation of the heart and great vessel calcification by conventional computed tomography in hemodialysis patients

Renal Failure

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-40

  Tamiya, Eiji ^a   Inoue, Kiyoshi ^a   Nishitani, Miho ^b   Daida, Hiroyuki ^b   Koide, Hikaru ^a  

^a KOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Calcification; Computer tomography; Coronary artery; Hemodialysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846986477     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08860220601038348     Document Type: Article

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