Coronary Artery Calcification in Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vascular calcification is seen in most patients on dialysis and is strongly associated with cardiovascular mortality. Vascular calcification is promoted by phosphate, which generally reaches higher levels in hemodialysis than in peritoneal dialysis. However, whether vascular calcification develops less in peritoneal dialysis than in hemodialysis is currently unknown. Therefore, we compared coronary artery calcification (CAC), its progression, and calcification biomarkers between patients on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

Methods

We measured CAC in 134 patients who had been treated exclusively with hemodialysis (n = 94) or peritoneal dialysis (n = 40) and were transplantation candidates. In 57 of them (34 on hemodialysis and 23 on peritoneal dialysis), we al

SUBMITTER: Jansz TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6390451 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature