Prevalence of Right Ventricular Dysfunction & Pulmonary Hypertension and their Relationship to the Number of Hemodialysis Sessions in Patients of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Prevalence of Right Ventricular Dysfunction & Pulmonary Hypertension and their Relationship to the Number of Hemodialysis Sessions in Patients of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Introduction: Chronic hemodialysis (HD) ends up with right ventricular (RV) dysfunction and increased pulmonary hypertension (PHTN). Left to right shunt in dialysis patients due to arterio-venous fistula (AVF) causes chronic volume overload, independent of rise in body water leading to worsening RV...

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Main Authors: Rakesh Bahadur Adhikari, Qazi Abdul Saboor, Mateen Akram, Saira Fayyaz, Husnain Bashir, Muhammad Rizwan-ul-Haque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, Lahore 2021-06-01
Series:Proceedings
Subjects:
esrd patients on hd, echo, rv dysfunction, phtn.
Online Access:https://proceedings-szmc.org.pk/index.php/szmc/article/view/143

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