Tomonari Harada, Masaru Obokata, Koji Kurosawa, Hidemi Sorimachi, Kuniko Yoshida, Hideki Ishida, Kyoko Ito, Tetsuya Ogawa, Yoshitaka Ando, Masahiko Kurabayashi, Kazuaki Negishi
Hemodialysis patients have conditions that increase cardiac output (CO), including arteriovenous fistula, fluid retention, vasodilator use, and anemia. We sought to determine the relationships between these factors and CO and to evaluate the effects of the high-output states on ventricular morphology, function, and myocardial energetics in hemodialysis patients, using noninvasive load-insensitive indices. Cardiovascular function was assessed in hemodialysis patients with high output [ejection fraction ≥ 50%, cardiac index (CI) > 3...
October 16, 2018: International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging