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The effect of hemodiafiltration on heart rate variability in chronic renal failure patients /

Marwa Mahmoud Bahr Moustafa

The effect of hemodiafiltration on heart rate variability in chronic renal failure patients / تأثير الغسيل الكلوى على التغير فى معدل ضربات القلب فى مرضى الفشل الكلوى المزمن Marwa Mahmoud Bahr Moustafa ; Supervised Mohammad Hesham Safouh , Wael Ahmad Attia , Rasha Essam Eldin Abdelaziz - Cairo : Marwa Mahmoud Bahr Moustafa , 2012 - 216P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics

Chronic uremics show sympathetic - vagal imbalance in form of poor heart rate variability . The unbalanced hypersympathetic response to body fluid depletion is related to ultrafiltration rate . Low ultrafiltration rate associated with hemodiafiltration should be the preferable strategy for uremic patients with autonomic dysfunction . Our study shows positive correlation between hemodiafiltration and heart rat variability improvement



Autonomic dysfunction Heart rate variability Hemodiafiltration