Coronary artery calcification, coronary artery stenosis and hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients [3]

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-

  Patsalas, Stavros ^a   Eleftheriadis, Theodoros ^a   Theodoroglou, Hariklia ^a   Antoniadi, Georgia ^a   Liakopoulos, Vassilis ^a   Vargemezis, Vassilis ^b  

^a 2nd IKA Hospital   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATES;

EID: 33847008032     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2007.00460.x     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

1. Yokoyama K, Nishioka M, Sakuma T et al. Most patients with coronary artery calcification have no coronary artery stenosis and hyperphosphatemia should be important in re-evaluating the K/DOQI guidelines. Ther Apher Dial 2006;10:101.
2. Patsalas S, Eleftheriadis T, Spaia S et al. The value of computed tomography-derived coronary artery calcification score in coronary artery disease detection in asymptomatic hemodialysis patients. Ren Fail 2005;27:683-8.
3. Sharples EJ, Pereira D, Summers S et al. Coronary artery salcification measured with electron-beam computerized tomography correlates poorly with coronary artery angiography in dialysis patients. Am J Kidney Dis 2004;43:313-19.
4. London GM, Guerin AP, Marchais SJ, Metivier F, Pannier B, Adda H. Arterial media calcification in end-stage renal disease: impact on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2003;18:1731-40.