Introduction:
Cardiovascular complications are the leading cause of death in patients with chronic kidney disease. In CKD stage 5 patients increase the chance of cardiovascular death10-20 times than that of age and sex matched general population. Vascular calcification is a highly prevalent in CKD stage-5 patient and independently predictive of future cardiovascular events and mortality
Methods:
This cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2019 to October, 2020 in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh . Ninetyfour CKD-5 patients (47 patients on dialysis and 47 patients not on dialysis). Lateral radiograph of the lumbar spine was done to assess the AAC .Carotid Intima Media Thickness and Cardiac Valvular Calcification was assessed using carotid sonography and echocardiogram.
Results:
Significant association was found among Abdominal Aortic calcification(AAC) with aortic and mitral valvular calcification of the CKD patients. Aortic valvular calcification was found in 42 patients which was 44.7% of total patients. Among them 78.8% had AAC and 26.2% had no AAC. Mitral valvular calcification found in 39 (41.5%) patients out of which 61.5% have AAC. CIMT was found >0.8 in 33 patients. Among them 42.4% had AAC and 57.6% had no AAC.
Conclusions:
Simple ,cheap, easily available and non invasive test can be used to detect cardiovascular changes of CKD patients. That will help to prevent cardiovascular complications
I have no potential conflict of interest to disclose.
I did not use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.