Ischaemia imaging in type 2 diabetic kidney transplant candidates is coronary angiography essential? | Zendy

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Ischaemia imaging in type 2 diabetic kidney transplant candidates is coronary angiography essential?

Author(s) -

Sishir Gang,

Manish Dabhi,

M.M. Rajapurkar

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

nephrology dialysis transplantation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654

H-Index - 168

eISSN - 1460-2385

pISSN - 0931-0509

DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfm134

Subject(s) - medicine , coronary artery disease , cardiology , transplantation , kidney disease , kidney transplantation , diabetes mellitus , stenosis , type 2 diabetes , endocrinology

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of death in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients undergoing renal transplantation. There is a high prevalence of silent CAD in these patients. Controversy exists regarding the role of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in detection of CAD. Our purpose was to compare DSE with coronary angiography (CA) for the detection of CAD in type 2 diabetic patients undergoing evaluation for renal transplantation.

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