Asad Merchant, Ron Wald, Marc B Goldstein, Darren Yuen, Anish Kirpalani, Niki Dacouris, Joel G Ray, Mercedeh Kiaii, Jonathan Leipsic, Vamshi Kotha, Djeven Deva, Andrew T Yan
Hypertension is prevalent in patients with end-stage renal disease and is strongly associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality. Blood pressure (BP) monitoring in hemodialysis patients may be unreliable because of its lability and variability. We compared different methods of BP measurement and their relationship with LVH on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Sixty patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis at a single dialysis center had BP recorded at each dialysis session over 12 weeks: pre-dialysis, initial dialysis, nadir during dialysis, and post-dialysis...
April 2015: Journal of the American Society of Hypertension: JASH