Chaudhary Muhammad Junaid Nazar
1*, Faisal Bashir
2, Syed Ahtizaz Ahmed
3, Saba Izhar
41 Department of Endocrinology, University of Buckingham, Royal Gwent Hospital, NHS Trust, Wales, UK
2 Department of ENT, New City Teaching Hospital, Mohetarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Medical College, Mirpur Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
3 Department of Internal Medicine, Allma Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan
4 Department of Community Medicine, Nawaz Sharif Medical College, Gujarat, Pakistan
Abstract
Several advances in dialysis therapies have been made. Still, the mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) remains high at rates exceeding 15%. Cardiovascular disease from heart failure or sudden death remains an important cause for mortality in these groups. The most common cardiac anomaly in ESRD is cardiac hypertrophy and this has been observed in 75% of patients at the time of starting dialysis. Also, in patients on conventional hemodialysis (CHD) (4 hours, 3 times per week), left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor for mortality, arrhythmias, heart failure and myocardial ischemia. Stroke work index and left ventricular mass (LVM) are closely associated, in ESRD.
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education:
Several advances in dialysis therapies have been made. Still, the mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) remains high at rates exceeding 15%. Cardiovascular disease from heart failure or sudden death remains an important cause for mortality in these groups. The most common cardiac anomaly in ESRD is cardiac hypertrophy and this has been observed in 75% of patients at the time of starting dialysis.
Please cite this paper as: Nazar CMJ, Bashir F, Izhar S, Ahmed SA. Does frequent hemodialysis regimen result in regression of left ventricular mass compared to conventional hemodialysis? J Nephropharmacol 2015; 4(1): 37-41.