Hideyuki Hayasaka, Kiyonori Ito, Susumu Ookawara, Masaya Kofuji, Takayuki Uchida, Shunto Kawamura, Ayumi Gomyo, Haruhisa Miyazawa, Yuichiro Ueda, Keiji Hirai, Shun-Ichi Kimura, Naoki Momose, Shinichi Kako, Yoshiyuki Morishita
A 60-year-old woman with POEMS (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes) syndrome and intractable ascites presented with acute renal failure and received hemodialysis (HD) therapy. Due to frequent intradialytic hypotension, ultrafiltration with cell-free and concentrated ascites reinfusion therapy (CART) was performed to adequately manage the body fluid status and massive ascites. During HD with CART, her blood pressure was maintained compared with that during HD without CART, and an ultrafiltration volume of 3...
2022: Case Reports in Nephrology