Haemodialysis session: The perfect storm for vascular calcification.

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Optimal dialysate calcium and vascular calcification.

Sir, Yamada et al. [1] report that the rate of progression of aortic calcification is related to the increase of serum calcium during the haemodialysis session ( Ca), using a stepwise multivariate regression analysis. The only other serum parameter that exhibited an association with the progression of aortic calcification was CRP. The authors hypothesized that the excess calcium transferred int...

Vascular calcification in chronic haemodialysis patients.

Vascular calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease was mentioned for the first time in the 19 century when Virchow described the appearance of metastatic calcification in patients with kidney failure. The subject has gained great interest in recent years as many studies described that a high percentage of patients on chronic haemodialysis show vascular calcification, the extent of w...

Eccentric superior mesenteric artery calcification in a haemodialysis patient.

DESCRIPTION A 43-year-old male patient who was undergoing maintenance haemodialysis for 11 years underwent abdominal CT scan due to a suspected malignancy. He had type-2 diabetes mellitus for 15 years. Abdominal CT revealed that there was diffuse atherosclerotic calcification in superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and its branches (figures 1 and 2). No radiological findings of ischaemia were evide...

Aortic calcification in haemodialysis patients with diabetes mellitus.

BACKGROUND Certain metabolic disorders, such as hyperphosphatemia induce vascular calcification in haemodialysis patients; it is unclear, however, whether these disorders contribute to aortic calcification in diabetic haemodialysis patients. This study examined the risk factors of aortic calcification in a large number of haemodialysis patients, and compared risk factors between diabetic and no...