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Calcific cardiomyopathy in advanced renal failure. |
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| Authors: | K K Arora J P Lacy R A Schacht D G Martin C F Gutch |
| Abstract: | Four uremic patients on maintenance hemodialysis developed intractable heart failure and atrioventricular block. All had persistently high (over 60) calcium-phosphorus products. At autopsy, all had metastatic myocardial calcification. Their inability to take phosphate-binding agents orally is responsible for this fatal complication. |
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