Echocardiographic assessment of right ventricular function in peritoneal dialysis patients

• Main Authors: Duygu Ersan Demirci (Author), Deniz Demirci (Author), Melahat Çoban (Author), Gülsüm Meral Yılmaz Öztekin (Author), Şakir Arslan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: KARE Publishing, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in patients undergoing dialysis. Most of the available studies focus on left ventricular (LV) function in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients; data about the effect of PD on right ventricular (RV) function are scarce. The aim of this...