Carmine Zoccali, Patrick B Mark, Pantelis Sarafidis, Rajiv Agarwal, Marcin Adamczak, Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira, Ziad A Massy, Peter Kotanko, Charles J Ferro, Christoph Wanner, Michel Burnier, Raymond Vanholder, Francesca Mallamaci, Andrzej Wiecek
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cardiovascular death. Identifying and monitoring cardiovascular complications and hypertension is important for managing patients with CKD or kidney failure and transplant recipients. Biomarkers of myocardial ischaemia, such as troponins and electrocardiography (ECG), have limited utility for diagnosing cardiac ischaemia in patients with advanced CKD. Dobutamine stress echocardiography, myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and dipyridamole stress testing can be used to detect coronary disease in these patients...
November 2023: Nature Reviews. Nephrology