1. Cold haemodialysis: the instrumental power of large cohorts.
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Combe, Christian and Rubin, Sébastien
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HEMODIAFILTRATION , *HEMODIALYSIS , *DIASTOLIC blood pressure - Abstract
It might be hypothesised that patients in the Zoccali I et al i . study [[1]] had a higher risk of IDH since they were incident patients, although this is purely speculative. A drawback of the use of cold dialysate is that patients feel uncomfortable when the dialysate temperature is low, as happened in the Ontario study [[2]]: this might be an indicator of the clinical significance of a 0.5°C difference in dialysate temperature. [[1]] evaluate the impact of cool dialysate temperature on the occurrence of intradialytic hypotension (IDH) in an incident cohort of >8000 patients treated by haemodialysis (HD) from NephroCare Spanish and Portuguese centres in Europe. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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