Trial reportJournal of nephrology2020
Excess volume removal following lung ultrasound evaluation decreases central blood pressure and pulse wave velocity in hemodialysis patients: a LUST sub-study.
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- Lung ultrasound for fluid assessment in patients receiving dialysis-a systematic review.Journal of nephrology · 2025Pooled it
- Carotid pulsatile energy fraction surpasses traditional hemodynamic markers in explaining cognitive impairment among hemodialysis patients.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound in nephrology: Basics, applications, limitations, and future directions.World journal of nephrology · 2025Review
- Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity and Extracellular Water Expansion in Hemodialysis Patients.Artificial organs · 2025Article
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- Can Dialysis Patients Identify and Diagnose Pulmonary Congestion Using Self-Lung Ultrasound?Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Lung Ultrasound Estimates the Overhydration and Benefits Blood Pressure Control in Normal or Mild Symptomatic Hemodialysis Patients.International journal of nephrology and renovascular disease · 2022Article
- Volume overload in hemodialysis: diagnosis, cardiovascular consequences, and management.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2021Review
- Associations of serum sclerostin and Dickkopf-related protein-1 proteins with future cardiovascular events and mortality in haemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study.Clinical kidney journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundArterial stiffness is a strong predictor of death and cardiovascular (CV) events in hemodialysis patients. Only few studies tested interventions aiming to improve arterial stiffness in this population. This study examines the effect of dry-weight reduction with a standardized lung-ultrasound-guided strategy on ambulatory aortic blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness parameters in hemodialysis.
methodsSeventy-one clinically euvolemic hemodialysis patients with hypertension, were included in this single-blind randomized clinical-trial. Patients were randomized in the active group (n = 35), following dry-weight reduction guided by the total number of US-B lines before a mid-week dialysis session and the control group (n = 36), following standard treatment. Patients underwent office evaluation of arterial stiffness and 48-h ABPM to capture ambulatory central systolic (cSBP) and diastolic BP (cDBP) and arterial stiffness indexes at baseline and after 8-weeks.
resultsUS-B lines decreased in the active and slightly increased in the control group (p < 0.001) during follow-up. Office-pulse-wave-velocity (PWV) decreased from baseline to study-end only in the active group, resulting in significant between-group differences (- 0.25 ± 0.71 vs 0.20 ± 1.18 m/s p = 0.037). Reduction in 48-h-cSBP (- 6.30 ± 8.90 vs - 0.50 ± 12.46; p = 0.027) was greater and in cDBP (- 3.85 ± 6.61 vs - 0.63 ± 8.36; p = 0.077) marginally greater in the active compared to control group. 48-h-central-pulse-pressure (cPP, 41.51 ± 9.63 vs 39.06 ± 9.61 mmHg; p = 0.004) and 48-h-PWV (9.30 ± 2.00 vs 9.08 ± 2.04 m/s p = 0.032) were significantly reduced during follow-up in the active group and were unchanged in controls, resulting in significant between-group differences. In contrast, 48-h-AIx and AIx(75) were not different between the two groups.
conclusionLung-ultrasound-guided dry-weight reduction decreased ambulatory aortic-BP and ambulatory or office-PWV, but not ambulatory-AIx(75). These results suggest that dry-weight reduction is an important treatment approach to improve these cardiovascular risk factors in hemodialysis.
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