Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Is Not Simply Associated with Extracellular Water Expansion

• मुख्य लेखकों: Kamonwan Tangvoraphonkchai (लेखक), Andrew Davenport (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Karger Publishers, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Background: Cardiac death is increased in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a measurement of arterial stiffness, and previous reports linked PWV to increased extracellular water (ECW). As cyclers and icodextrin are increasingly used, we wished to determine whether this...