Aortic calcification predicts cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in renal transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1314-1319

  Deloach, Stephanie S ^a   Joffe, Marshall M ^b   Mai, Xingchen ^b   Goral, Simin ^b   Rosas, Sylvia E ^b,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular events; Renal transplantation; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349192019     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn753     Document Type: Article

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