How important is echocardiography for risk stratification in follow-up of patients with chronic kidney disease?
Zoccali
Carmine
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Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, and of the Section of Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, National Research Council, Reggio Calabria, Italy. carmine.zoccali@tin.it
D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D015994:Incidence; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors