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Type and Time of Dialysis Are Independent Indicators for Carotid Atherosclerosis in End-stage Renal Disease Patients on Dialysis
Yuze Li1, Chunmiao Chen2, Yajie Wang1, Jie Li2, Xiaoli Sun2, Shuiwei Xia2, Lie Jin2, Yani Ye2, Jiansong Ji2, and Huijun Chen1
1Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Medical School, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2The Central Hospital of Zhejiang Lishui, Lishui, China
The vessel wall characteristics of carotid artery was measured on T1w, T2w and SNAP images in end-stage renal disease patients on dialysis. The presence of plaque was found to be significantly and independently associated with the dialysis type and time on dialysis.
Table 4. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression of clinical factors associated with the presence of plaque
Figure 1. (A) The carotid vessel wall images of a 62-year-old male patient with 6 months of hemodialysis. (B)The carotid vessel wall images of a 58-year-old male patient with 62 months of hemodialysis;