Inferior vena cava diameter and left atrial diameter measure volume but not dry weight.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Hypervolemia is an important and modifiable cause of hypertension. Hypertension improves with probing dry weight, but its effect on echocardiographic measures of volume is unknown.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Shortly after dialysis, echocardiograms were obtained at baseline and longitudinally every 4 weeks on two occasions. Among 100 patients in the additional ultrafiltration group, 198 echocardiograms were performed; among 50 patients in the control group, 104 echocardiograms were performed.

Results

Baseline inferior vena cava (IVC)(insp) diameter was approximately 5.1 mm/m(2); with ultrafiltration, change in IVC(insp) diameter was -0.95 mm/m(2) more compared with the control group at 4 weeks and -1.18 mm/m(2) more compared

SUBMITTER: Agarwal R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3087772 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature