1. Switch From Conventional to Every Other Day Hemodialysis: A Comparison Pilot Study
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Konstantinos P. Katopodis, Rigas Kalaitzidis, Evangelia Dounousi, Anna Challa, Kostas Pappas, and Kostas C. Siamopoulos
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Biomedical Engineering ,Biophysics ,Kidney Failure, Chronic/complications/*therapy ,Uremia/etiology ,Blood Pressure ,Pilot Projects ,Bioengineering ,Ventricular Function, Left ,Biomaterials ,Renal Dialysis ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Renal Dialysis/*methods ,Humans ,Blood Pressure/physiology ,Erythropoietin ,Dialysis ,Uremia ,Ejection fraction ,business.industry ,Body Weight ,Stroke Volume ,General Medicine ,Stroke volume ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Recombinant Proteins ,Erythropoietin/therapeutic use ,Surgery ,Blood pressure ,Mean blood pressure ,Body Weight/physiology ,Stroke Volume/physiology ,Cardiology ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,Female ,Hemodialysis ,Ventricular Function, Left/physiology ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Fluid and solute fluctuations during the week are the main drawbacks of conventional hemodialysis (cHD) in patients' outcomes. The aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of every other day hemodialysis (eodHD) on clinical and laboratory parameters and to compare to that of cHD. Eighteen patients on cHD were included in the study. Nine patients (group I) were randomly switched to eodHD, while the rest (group II) remained on their regular cHD. By the end of the study (12 months) we observed a reduction in body weight followed by a parallel reduction in predialysis mean blood pressure by 7 mm Hg in group I (p
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- 2009
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