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Breast Arterial Calcification

Author(s) -

Valerie Duhn,

Ellen T. D’Orsi,

Samuel T. Johnson,

Carl J. D’Orsi,

Amy L. Adams,

W. Charles O’Neill

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.07190810

Subject(s) - medicine , kidney disease , calcification , diabetes mellitus , mammography , radiology , breast cancer , endocrinology , cancer

Because previous studies have not distinguished between intimal (atherosclerotic) and medial vascular calcification, the prevalence and clinical significance of either condition in chronic or end-stage kidney disease (CKD or ESKD) are unknown. We hypothesized that breast arterial calcification (BAC) is exclusively medial and that mammography can serve as a useful marker of generalized medial calcification in CKD and ESKD.

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