Open AccessAssessing Extracellular Volume in Hemodialysis Patients Using Intradialytic Blood Pressure Slopes
Author(s) -
Hao Líu,
Rong Lü,
Shani Shastri,
Mark Sonderman,
Peter Noel Van Buren
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the nephron journals/nephron journals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2235-3186
pISSN - 1660-8151
DOI - 10.1159/000487093
Subject(s) - medicine , hemodialysis , dialysis , blood pressure , extracellular fluid , urology , blood volume , cardiology , extracellular , body water , endocrinology , zoology , body weight , chemistry , biochemistry , biology
Extracellular volume (ECV) overload is a mortality risk factor in hemodialysis patients, but no standard approach exists to objectively assess this clinically. We aimed to quantify relationships between slopes of repeated intradialytic blood pressure (BP) measurements and ECV.