ReviewInternational urology and nephrology2020
Thirst in patients on chronic hemodialysis: What do we know so far?
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- Ultrafiltration-sodium profiles and their impact on thirst and xerostomia in hemodialysis patients.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
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- Investigation of Hemodialysis Patients' Views on Thirst: A Mixed-Methods Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Long Nocturnal Hemodialysis and the Most Difficult UltraTrail Race.Kidney international reports · 2025Article
- Salivary Flow Rate in Patients with Kidney Failure on Hemodialysis-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Prevalence and determinants of thirst distress amongst patients on maintenance haemodialysis.BMC nephrology · 2025Article
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- How to Limit Interdialytic Weight Gain in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis: State of the Art and Perspectives.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Effect of frozen saline and menthol gum on thirst level after abdominal surgery: A mixed-methods study.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- Experiences of Dietary Management and Social Adaptation in Young End-Stage Renal Disease Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: A Qualitative Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2025Article
- Independent risk factors for thirst in hemodialysis patients: female sex, sodium profiling dialysis, and xerostomia.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Association of serum sodium levels with fractures and mortality in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis.Journal of nephrology · 2024Article
- The relationship between fatigue, pruritus, and thirst distress with quality of life among patients receiving hemodialysis: a mediator model to test concept of treatment adherence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Safety of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination in patients with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis.PloS one · 2022Article
- Dysnatremias in Chronic Kidney Disease: Pathophysiology, Manifestations, and Treatment.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
Thirst has been defined as "the sensation that leads animal's and human's actions toward the goal of finding and drinking water" or as "any drive that can motivate water intake, regardless of cause". Thirst, together with xerostomia, is the main cause of poor adherence to fluid restriction and of excessive intake of fluids in patients on chronic hemodialysis, and consequently of high interdialytic weight gain. Interdialytic weight gain (IDWG) should be lower than 4.0-4.5% of dry weight. Unfortunately, many patients have an IDWG greater than this value and some have IDWG of 10-20%. High IDWG is associated with a higher risk of all-cause and cardiovascular death and increased morbidity, such as ventricular hypertrophy and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events. In addition, high IDWG leads to supplementary weekly dialysis sessions with consequent deterioration of quality of life and increased costs. Thus, the knowledge of thirst in patients on chronic hemodialysis is essential to prompt its adequate management to limit IDWG in the routine clinical practice. The present review aims to describe the physiology of thirst in patients on chronic hemodialysis, as well as the prevalence, its measures, the associated variables, the consequences, and the strategies for its reduction.
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