Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare disease often associated with positive antinuclear
antibody and high mortality. Pulmonary hypertension, which rarely is severe, occurs …

Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure≥ 25 mm Hg and
is a recently recognized complication of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is common in patients with dialysis-dependent chronic kidney
disease and is an independent predictor of mortality. However, specific hemodynamics of …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 13% of the US population. 1 Although a significant
proportion of these patients progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring renal …

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of the death in dialysis patients. Arteriovenous
fistulas (AVFs) are associated with lower mortality and are viewed as the desired access …

Background: While chronic dialysis treatment has been suggested to increase pulmonary
pressure values, right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) is a major cause of death in patients …

Introduction Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the setting of end-stage renal disease (ESRD)
has important prognostic and therapeutic consequences. We estimated the prevalence of …

Although cardiac evaluation before kidney transplantation commonly focuses on coronary
artery disease, a comprehensive pretransplant cardiac evaluation must consider other …

Objectives To compare the prevalence of unexplained pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH)
in hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients and to compare laboratory …

Pulmonary hypertension in end-stage renal disease patients is associated with significantly
increased morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in dialysis …