DIALYSIS (DIFFUSION)

Dialysis (Diffusion)

Dialysis (Diffusion)

Introduction

Dialysis hypotension remains one of the most frequent intradialytic complications, although important improvements have been made in the dialysis techniques. The incidence of symptomatic hypotensive episodes during the haemodialysis (HD) sessions is high in the patients who have low or normal blood pressure and in those with large interdialytic weight gain. The fluid removal during dialysis with its haemodynamic consequences (hypovolaemia, fall in circulating filling pressure and in cardiac output) is considered to be an important cause of these symptomatic hypotensive episodes (Jost, 2003, 21).

Background

Plasma nitric oxide (NO) levels have been found to be high in haemodialysis ...