Does hemodilution worsen prognosis compared to true anemia in patients with advanced heart failure?
In patients with advanced heart failure, hemodilution is associated with worse outcomes than true anemia, highlighting the detrimental role of volume overload.
Hemodilution is common in CHF patients. Anemia is associated with a poor prognosis in CHF. Patients with hemodilution tend to do worse than patients with true anemia, which suggests that volume overload may be an important mechanism contributing to the poor outcome in anemic CHF patients.
Androne et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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