CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 缺血性心脏病是慢性肾功能衰竭(CRF)患者发病和死亡的最常见原因。虽然有几个已知的与冠状动脉疾病相关的危险因素，但没有一个对检测冠状动脉病变非常敏感或特异。能够检测冠状动脉病变的诊断方法往往是昂贵的和/或有创的。电子束计算机断层扫描(EBCT)的出现提供了一种相对诊断的成像模式，在诊断成像模式中可能被证明是有用的筛查工具，在这一高危人群中作为筛查工具可能被证明是有用的冠状动脉疾病的检测和监测。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Ischemic heart disease is the commonest cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF). While there are several known risk factors associated with coronary artery disease, none are very sensitive or specific for the detection of coronary artery lesions. The diagnostic modalities which can detect coronary artery lesions tend to be expensive and/or invasive. The advent of electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) provides a relatively diagnostic imaging modalitiy that may prove useful as a screening tool in the diagnostic imaging modality that may prove useful as a screenig tool in the detection and monitoring of coronary artery disease in this high-risk group.