Prevalence and Predictors of Cardiovascular Calcium in Chronic Kidney Disease (from the Prospective Longitudinal RRI-CKD Study)

Low Responsiveness to Clopidogrel Increases Risk among CKD Patients Undergoing Coronary Intervention

“…Thus, outcome may be related to unidentified risk factors especially those evolving over time. Thus, we cannot exclude the effect of procedural and plaque characteristics to have an additional influence on clinical outcome in these patients, and increased coronary calcification has been described in patients with chronic kidney disease, 30,31 representing a moderate prognostic factor in this risk group. 32,33 Finally, we were unable to determine bleeding events in a systematicway.Becausebleedingisamajorrisk factor for post-PCI mortality and renal failure is associated with increased bleeding risk, 34 we cannot exclude a higher rate of major bleeding in patients with CKD being responsible for the higher mortality rate observed.…”

Escore de cálcio coronariano prediz estenose e eventos na insuficiência renal crônica pré-transplante

“…CRF patients on dialysis have reported a 2.5 fold magnitude for coronary calcification [19][20][21][22] . However, such high level has mostly been related to traditional CAD risk factors in this population rather than factors associated to renal function of dialysis 23 . Vascular calcification is described as related to dialysis.…”

The 30 Day Complication Rate After Aortic Valve Replacement with a Pericardial Valve in a Mainly Geriatric Population

“…Renal and cardiovascular disease could be linked in two ways. On the one hand, renal function impairment, even if this modest, has been an established element in the risk profile for atheromatosis (74,75). On the other hand, renal function impairment could also be the result of atheromatosis and has certainly been observed after major cardiovascular surgery such as AVR.…”