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Am J Cardiol
; 95(6): 742-3, 2005 Mar 15.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15757600
RESUMO
Of 137 patients (mean age 63 years) who underwent hemodialysis for chronic renal failure, 65 (47%) had mitral valve calcium, mitral annular calcium, or aortic valve calcium. Thirty-eight of 65 patients (59%) who had valve calcium died at 3.5-year follow-up versus 21 of 72 patients (29%) who did not have valve calcium and who died at 4.3-year follow-up (p = 0.0005).