Improved Left Ventricular Structure and Function After Successful Kidney Transplantation

• Main Authors: Bernd Hewing (Author), Anna Maria Dehn (Author), Oliver Staeck (Author), Fabian Knebel (Author), Sebastian Spethmann (Author), Karl Stangl (Author), Gert Baumann (Author), Henryk Dreger (Author), Klemens Budde (Author), Fabian Halleck (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Karger Publishers, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Background/Aims: Cardiac changes observed in chronic kidney disease patients are of multifactorial origin including chronic uremia, hemodynamics or inflammation. Restoration of renal function by kidney transplantation (KTX) may reverse cardiac changes. Novel echocardiographic methods such as speckle...