Serum cobalt in relation to cardiac performance in patients with chronic renal failure
The serum concentration of cobalt (s-Co) was determined in 10 patients with various stages of renal failure and was compared with hemodynamic subsets. S-Co was elevated in most patients. S-Co did not correlate to cardiac index, but there was a significant correlation between s-Co and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (r=0.67; p
