Intracranial and heart valve calcifications in hemodialysis patients-Interrelationship and clinical impact.

Feda FanadkaTania GrumbergGuy TopazSydney BenchetritTali Zitman-GalOri WandKeren Cohen-Hagai

Published in: Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis (2022)

We found an independent association between ICC and the risk of death among hemodialysis patients. Assessing ICC may contribute to the risk stratification of hemodialysis patients. These calcifications are no less important than valvular calcifications.

Keyphrases

aortic valve
atrial fibrillation
mitral valve
heart failure
aortic stenosis
ejection fraction