Excess volume removal following lung ultrasound evaluation decreases central blood pressure and pulse wave velocity in hemodialysis patients: a LUST sub-study.
Charalampos LoutradisAikaterini PapagianniRobert EkartMarieta TheodorakopoulouIoanna MinopoulouEfstathios PagoureliasStella DoumaAsterios KaragiannisFrancesca MallamaciCarmine ZoccaliGerard LondonPantelis A SarafidisPublished in: Journal of nephrology (2020)
Lung-ultrasound-guided dry-weight reduction decreased ambulatory aortic-BP and ambulatory or office-PWV, but not ambulatory-AIx(75). These results suggest that dry-weight reduction is an important treatment approach to improve these cardiovascular risk factors in hemodialysis.
Keyphrases
- blood pressure
- cardiovascular risk factors
- ultrasound guided
- hypertensive patients
- body mass index
- heart rate
- weight loss
- physical activity
- cardiovascular disease
- weight gain
- metabolic syndrome
- magnetic resonance imaging
- aortic valve
- body weight
- left ventricular
- pulmonary artery
- fine needle aspiration
- heart failure
- skeletal muscle
- insulin resistance
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- glycemic control