CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY, cilt.5, sa.9, ss.1642-1648, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
Background and objectives: Children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at high risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. A systemic arteriopathy and cardiomyopathy has been characterized in pediatric dialysis patients by the presence of morphologic and functional abnormalities.