Open AccessEarly predictors of cardiac dysfunction in Egyptian children with chronic kidney disease
Author(s) -
Mohamed Abdelaziz El-Gamasy,
Walid Ahmed El-Shehaby,
Maaly Mohamed Mabrouk
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/apc.apc_12_18
Subject(s) - medicine , vitamin d and neurology , diastole , cardiology , kidney disease , doppler echocardiography , vitamin d deficiency , etiology , cardiac function curve , gastroenterology , endocrinology , parathyroid hormone , calcium , heart failure , blood pressure
Cardiovascular morbidity (CVM) is the main etiology of mortality in children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD associated cardiovascular mortality is more common in children with diastolic cardiac dysfunction which was considered as an early indicator for death, while increased left ventricular mass (LVM) is a strong independent risk factor for these patients. Vitamin D deficiency was previously studied as one of the risk factors for CVM.