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How important is echocardiography for risk stratification in follow-up of patients with chronic kidney disease?

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  1. Ospedali Riuniti, Nefrologia (VI Piano), Via Vallone Petrara, Reggio Calabria 89124, Italy carmine.zoccali@tin.it

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  1. C Zoccali is Head of the Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, and of the Section of Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, National Research Council, Reggio Calabria, Italy.,

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Zoccali, C. How important is echocardiography for risk stratification in follow-up of patients with chronic kidney disease?. Nat Rev Nephrol 3, 178–179 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0441

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