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Query: UMLS:C0018799 (
heart disease
)
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Risk factors for
heart disease
in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) are the same as in general population; moreover CRF and renal replacement therapies (dialysis, immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplantation) induce further specific cardiac risks. In practice, the commonest heart diseases associated with CRF are coronary artery diseases, myocardiopathies from various aetiologies, valve diseases and arrhythmias.
Uremic pericarditis
are quite unusual nowadays. Advances in therapy authorize easier control of congestive heart failure, the major complication of
heart disease
in CRF patients. Furthermore, it was observed that correction of anemia with erythropoietin therapy or kidney transplantation can ameliorate or reverse partially some cardiac diseases.
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PMID:[The heart in chronic kidney failure patients]. 160 61
