Population
32 hemodialysis patients treated thrice-weekly for at least 6 months, mean age 60 +/- 17.1 years. Exclusion…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Volume overload may predominate in driving BNP among HD patients; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before guiding care.
In hemodialysis patients without left ventricular dysfunction, elevated BNP levels are primarily driven by volume overload (extracellular water) rather than pressure load.
Fagugli et al. (2003) studied this question.
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