Abstract
Hypertension is common in end-stage renal disease patients and accelerates cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. An important measure in achieving normal blood pressure in these patients is reaching the target dry weight. Sodium and extracellular fluid balance play a major role in blood pressure and interdialytic weight gain. Serum sodium levels have a role in both maintaining blood pressure and inter dialytic weight gain .Sodium concentration of the dialysate is critical in maintaining the serum sodium of the patient on dialysis and in ultra-filtrate removal. The standard method of single sodium level of dialysate for all patients ignores the inter- and intra-individual variability of serum sodium. The need for a study to assess the blood pressure changes using standard sodium in the dialysate and varying the sodium in the dialysate as per the pre hemodialysis serum sodium levels of the patient was anticipated. In this study we try to address such a concern.30 patient on regular maintenance hemodialysis participated in the study, they underwent dialysis with standard levels of sodium (137meq/l) for 4 weeks , later for the next 4 weeks they underwent dialysis with a dialysate sodium level that was adjusted as per their pre hemodialysis serum sodium. The mean blood pressure during dialysis were 150.3 mm Hg in the standard group and 148.3 mm Hg in the individualized group. The mean intradialytic weight gain in the standardized group was 3.05 kg and in the individualized group was 3.02 kg. The results did not show any significant difference in changes in blood pressure or inter dialytic weight gain.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Sanju Rajappan
Department of Nephrology, Malabar Medical College, Modakkallur, Calicut, Kerala 673323, India
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i8.01
