Additional prognostic value of toe-brachial index beyond ankle-brachial index in hemodialysis patients

BACKGROUND: Ankle-brachial index (ABI), the first-line diagnostic test for peripheral artery disease, can be falsely elevated when ankle arteries are incompressible, showing a J-shaped association with mortality. In this situation, toe-brachial index (TBI) is the recommended test. However, whether T...

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Published in:BMC Nephrol
Main Authors: Hishida, Manabu, Imaizumi, Takahiro, Menez, Steven, Okazaki, Masaki, Akiyama, Shin’ichi, Kasuga, Hirotake, Ishigami, Junichi, Maruyama, Shoichi, Matsushita, Kunihiro
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7439547/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32819299
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-01991-7
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