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Association of Serum Uromodulin with Death, Cardiovascular Events, and Kidney Failure in CKD.
CONCLUSIONS: Higher serum uromodulin is independently associated with lower risk for mortality, cardiovascular events, and kidney failure in white patients with CKD. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRY NAME AND REGISTRATION NUMBER: Deutsches Register für Klinische Studien (DRKS; German national database of clinical studies), DRKS00003971. PMID: 32291270 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - April 13, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Steubl D, Schneider MP, Meiselbach H, Nadal J, Schmid MC, Saritas T, Krane V, Sommerer C, Baid-Agrawal S, Voelkl J, Kotsis F, Köttgen A, Eckardt KU, Scherberich JE, GCKD Study Investigators Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research

Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation in Kidney Transplant Patients: Is Coronary Angiography Superior? A Focused Review.
Authors: Katta N, Balla S, Velagapudi P, Mittal M, Agrawal H, Kumar A, Aggarwal K Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic kidney disease patients. Because of a higher occurrence of asymptomatic coronary artery disease and increased perioperative cardiovascular mortality in kidney transplant patients, screening for coronary artery disease before transplant surgery is essential. Various studies have shown that cardiac stress testing is an unreliable screening method in these patients because of significant variability in sensitivity and negative predictive value. We su...
Source: Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis. Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis - October 13, 2017 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Adv Perit Dial Source Type: research