Coronary-artery Calcium Scores Using Electron Beam CT in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure

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Author	Kim, Chan-Duck Cho, Ji-Hyung Choi, Hyuk-Joon Jang, M. Kwon, Hyeog-Man Kim, Jun-Chul Park, Sun-Hee Lee, Jong-Min Cho, Dong-Kyu Kim, Yong Lim
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	We evaluated the risk of coronary-artery disease in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) by measuring the coronary-artery calcium scores with electron beam CT (EBCT). A total of 81 CRF patients were divided into three groups; pre-dialysis (group I, n = 35), hemodialysis (group II, n = 31) and peritoneal dialysis (group III, n = 15). The several serum biochemical markers and calcium score levels by EBCT were determined. The Ca x P products were significantly higher in groups II (p < 0.05) and III (p < 0.01) than in group I. The serum calcium levels were significantly higher in group III than in both group I (p < 0.01) and II (p < 0.05). The serum calcium level in 15 patients with a calcium score > 400 was significantly higher than the 66 patients with a score < or =400 (p < 0.01). The calcium score was significantly higher in the 15 patients with cardiovascular complications than in the 66 patients without cardiovascular complications (628.9+/-904.8 vs. 150.4+/-350.9, p < 0.01). EBCT seemed to be a good diagnostic tool for evaluating the risk of coronary-artery disease ''noninvasively'' in CRF patients who are at increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Starting Page	994
Ending Page	999
Page Count	6
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DOI	10.3346/jkms.2005.20.6.994
PubMed reference number	16361811
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	20
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2005.20.6.994
Journal	Journal of Korean medical science
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article