<strong>Introduction:</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Cardiovascular disease has become a major concern for the nephrologist as it is the leading cause of morbidity and mortalit...<strong>Introduction:</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Cardiovascular disease has become a major concern for the nephrologist as it is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease, and affects all stages of the disease, including the earliest stages of the disease. The goal of this work was to determine the frequency of cardiovascular complications during chronic kidney failure.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and methods:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This was a six-month, descriptive cross-sectional study from March 01 to August 31, 2018. It covered all patients with chronic kidney disease hospitalized in the ward during the study period. Included were all chronic kidney failure patients with at least one cardiac and/or vascular complication diagnosed either on clinical examination, and/or paraclinical examination (Electrocardiogram or cardiac ultrasound, vessel echodoppler, scan)</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Res</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ults:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> During the study period, 84 out of 378 patients or 22.22% had at least one cardiovascular complication. Cardiovascular complications were hypertrophy of the left ventricle with 49/84 (44 at Electrocardiogram and 5 at cardiac echodoppler), valvulopathy with 33.33%, stroke with 50% of cases, obliterating arterial disease of the lower limbs 25%, hypokinetic dilated cardiomyopathy with 9/36 cases and pericarditis with 2/36.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Cardiovascular complications affect both sexes and all ages. They were dominated by enlarged left ventricle, valvulopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy.</span>展开更多
文摘<strong>Introduction:</strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Cardiovascular disease has become a major concern for the nephrologist as it is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease, and affects all stages of the disease, including the earliest stages of the disease. The goal of this work was to determine the frequency of cardiovascular complications during chronic kidney failure.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Patients and methods:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> This was a six-month, descriptive cross-sectional study from March 01 to August 31, 2018. It covered all patients with chronic kidney disease hospitalized in the ward during the study period. Included were all chronic kidney failure patients with at least one cardiac and/or vascular complication diagnosed either on clinical examination, and/or paraclinical examination (Electrocardiogram or cardiac ultrasound, vessel echodoppler, scan)</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Res</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ults:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> During the study period, 84 out of 378 patients or 22.22% had at least one cardiovascular complication. Cardiovascular complications were hypertrophy of the left ventricle with 49/84 (44 at Electrocardiogram and 5 at cardiac echodoppler), valvulopathy with 33.33%, stroke with 50% of cases, obliterating arterial disease of the lower limbs 25%, hypokinetic dilated cardiomyopathy with 9/36 cases and pericarditis with 2/36.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Cardiovascular complications affect both sexes and all ages. They were dominated by enlarged left ventricle, valvulopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy.</span>
