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Diastolic function in children and adolescents on dialysis and after kidney transplantation: an echocardiographic assessment

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Thirty-seven children and adolescents on renal replacement therapy (11 on haemodialysis, 14 on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and 12 after renal transplantation) were studied by echocardiography, echo-Doppler and phonocardiography. Right and left ventricular (R/L V) diastolic functions were measured by transmitral and transtricuspid flow velocities and by LV isovolumic relaxation time (LVIRT). Thirty-seven age- and sex-matched healthy subjects served as controls. R/L V diastolic dysfunction was only observed in the dialysis patients. In these patients LVIRT was prolonged. LV and RV peak inflow velocities were increased both in early (E) and late (A) diastole with a reduction in the E/A ratios. This pattern of diastolic dysfunction is compatible with the combined effects of a hypercirculatory state (volume overload, anaemia, arteriovenous fistula) and an abnormality of cardiac relaxation. The transplant patients showed no major cardiac abnormalities.

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  1. Division of Paediatric Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Hebrew University Medical School, PO Box 3235, 91031, Jerusalem, Israel

    Avner Goren & Joram Glaser

  2. Division of Paediatric Nephrology, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Hebrew University Medical School, PO Box 3235, 91031, Jerusalem, Israel

    Alfred Drukker

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Goren, A., Glaser, J. & Drukker, A. Diastolic function in children and adolescents on dialysis and after kidney transplantation: an echocardiographic assessment. Pediatr Nephrol 7, 725–728 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213334

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