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Deficiencies of calcium-regulatory proteins in dialysis patients: A novel concept of cardiovascular calcification in uremia Markus Ketteler, Christoph Wanner, Thomas Metzger, Philipp Bongartz, Ralf Westenfeld, Ulrich Gladziwa, Leon J. Schurgers, Cees Vermeer, Willi Jahnen-Dechent, Jürgen Floege Kidney International Volume 63, Pages S84-S87 (May 2003) DOI: /j s84.21.x Copyright © 2003 International Society of Nephrology Terms and Conditions
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Figure 1 Severe calcifications of a coronary artery (white arrow) and of the aortic valve insertion (gray arrow) in a 42-year-old dialysis patient (Agatston score: 594 [Score:> 400 = severe burden of coronary artery calcification]; ECG-gated multislice spiral CT).Clinical history – Renal diagnosis: chronic glomerulonephritis (no biopsy performed); start of hemodialysis in 1988; kidney transplantation 1989–1996; re-start of hemodialysis in 1996 due to chronic allograft failure; arterial hypertension, local periarticular skin calcifications on his right hand and left foot. Kidney International , S84-S87DOI: ( /j s84.21.x) Copyright © 2003 International Society of Nephrology Terms and Conditions
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