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Long-term Coumadin use in chronic kidney disease patients carries a potential risk of inducing creeping vascular calcification, an adverse effect as devastating as major bleeding.
Highlights the potential risk of creeping vascular calcification as a devastating adverse effect of long-term warfarin use in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Is the risk of major bleeding the only reason to be concerned about oral anticoagulant therapy in chronic kidney disease patients? We consider another potential adverse effect of long-term Coumadin use in chronic kidney disease patients as comparably devastating: the threat of inducing creeping vascular calcification.
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Cozzolino et al. (2010) studied this question. Long-term Coumadin use in chronic kidney disease patients carries a potential risk of inducing creeping vascular calcification, an adverse effect as devastating as major bleeding.
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