... ) including 50 patients on hemodialysis underwent stress 99m Tc-tetrofosmin SPECT for suspected ischemic heart disease and were followed for 2 years. The primary endpoint was the occurrence of cardiac death (CD), while the secondary endpoint was major adverse cardiovascular/cerebrovascular and renal events...

... awareness among clinicians. However, understanding the disease, its pathophysiology, its clinical presentation, and the possible therapeutic options is vital in the management of these patients. Here, we present 2 cases of platypnea- orthodeoxia where oxygen saturations worsened with hemodialysis. After...

...Mori J. Krantz; James Brian Byrd The natural history of pericardial effusions attributable to renal disease is variable. Although aggressive hemodialysis may lead to the resolution of some effusions, some reports suggest that prompt drainage is optimal. We describe a case of a 49-year-old woman who...

...Guy Rostoker; Mireille Griuncelli; Christelle Loridon; Abbès Benmaadi; Eric Illouz Objectives: Intradialytic hypotension may adversely affect the outcome of chronic hemodialysis and thus reduce the patients’ life expectancy. The aim of this study was to assess the link between left-ventricular...

.... However, the clinical use of this drug may be limited due to its tendency to cause life-threatening hyperkalemia in hemodialysis (HD) patients. We assessed whether low-dose spironolactone could be safely administered to HD patients for a long period. The study design comprised 2-month baseline and 6-month...

... with lovastatin and simvastatin appears to be safe and is recommended in a minority of patients with predominantly elevations of LDL. HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors also lower remnant particles effectively in hemodialysis (HD) patients. L-Carnitine and low-molecular-weight heparin have been shown to influence VLDL...

...José J.G De Lima; Henry Abensur; Helio Bernardes-Silva; Giovanni Bellotti; Fulvio Pileggi To assess the role of arterial hypertension in left ventricle (LV) hypertrophy among hemodialysis patients, echocardiographic evaluation was performed in 10 hypertensive and 13 normotensive hemodialysis...

...Kyoko Endou; Juro Kamijima; Yuji Kakubari; Ryuichi Kikawada 35 patients with chronic renal failure were examined during the first 2 h of hemodialysis by invasive and non-invasive methods. The cardiac output was determined by the dye dilution technique in 11 of these patients and by Swan-Ganz...

...Tao Yu Lee; Pei-Leun Kang; Shih Hung Hsiao; Shih Kai Lin; Guang Yuan Mar; Chuen-Wang Chiou; Chun-Peng Liu Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the changes of regional tissue Doppler velocity after volume removal following regular hemodialysis (HD) in uremic patients. Is tissue...

...José Jayme G. De Lima; Marcelo Luis Campos Vieira; Laszlo J. Molnar; Caio Jorge Medeiros; Luís Estevan Ianhez; Eduardo M. Krieger In hemodialysis patients, large arteriovenous (AV) fistulas for vascular access may cause ventricular hypertrophy and high-output cardiac failure. The long-term cardiac...

... groups was cardiovascular. The frequency of fatal cardiovascular events was similar in the two groups: 64% of deaths for malignant hypertension and 71% for controls (NS). In conclusion, previous malignant hypertension did not increase the risk of patients in long-term hemodialysis in our series...

... failure patients on long-term hemodialysis, and (2) to evaluate the effect of hemodialysis on the serum levels of cardiac troponin I and creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme. Methods: One hundred and forty-four consecutive ambulatory asymptomatic chronic renal failure patients on hemodialysis for a minimum of 1...