TY - BOOK AU - Amir Mostafa Abdelmegeed AU - Essam Baligh Eweis , AU - Walid Abdelsalam Ammar , AU - Yasser Kamel Bsaghdady , TI - Carotid and peripheral atherosclerosis as a predictor of ischemic heart disease in patients with chronic kidney disease / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Amir Mostafa Abdelmegeed , KW - Atherosclerosis KW - Chronic kidney disease KW - GFR N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of its main risk factors . In our study we aimed at studing the pattern of carotid peripheral and coronry atherosclerosis in the patients with CKD and the those with normal kidney functions . We studied 51 patient with CKD and 25 with normal kidney functions . We concluded that in patients with CKD there was significant positive correlation between the coronary carotid and peripheral atherosclerosis and GFR UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -