Vasogenic Brain Edema During Maintenance Hemodialysis : Preliminary Results from Tract-based Spatial Statistics and Voxel-based Morphometry.

In this study ESRD patients showed white matter changes indicative of chronic microstructural damage when compared with healthy controls, as previously reported. In addition, patients showed signs of a transient extracellular cerebral edema, which has not yet been observed in the absence of neurological symptoms.