The Association Between Arterial Stiffness and Assessment of Hydration State in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

TC Erciyes University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disorders Associated With Peritoneal Dialysis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01659333

2010/10

Details and patient eligibility

About

Dry weight (DW) assessment is essential for the efficient treatment of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients but so far objective methods for DW assessment have not been established for daily clinical practice. Our aim was to evaluate hydration state in PD patients by using a body composition monitor (BCM) and calf bioimpedance (c-BI) and N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels and to compare both methods with arterial stiffness.

Full description

We evaluated 60 patients using a new BCM device that implies a validated body composition model. This method allows correct quantification of extracellular fluid overload or deficiency (normal limits:-1.1 to +1.1L). Patients were assigned to normo and hypervolemic groups according to BCM results. Also, normalized calf resistivity (nRho) was calculated from resistance at 5 Khz using c-BI and the levels of NT-proBNP were measured in all study patients. The analyses of arterial stiffness were performed by using the pulse wave velocity (PWV) technique on the patients. All patients underwent conventional echocardiography and their left ventricular diastolic functions were evaluated.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Peritoneal dialysis patients
• All participants over 18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with valvular heart disease
• Patients with coronary artery disease
• Patients with cardiomyopathy
• Patients with ESRD who underwent hemodialysis

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Peritoneal dialysis, hypervolemia

Description:

All calculations are automatically performed by the software of the BCM device. Absolute over hydration (OH) is the difference between the expected patient's ECW under normal physiological conditions and the actual ECW, whereas the relative over hydration (Rel. OH) is defined as the OH to ECW ratio. Normohydration is defined when OH is between the 10th and the 90th percentile for healthy, age- and gender-matched individuals from the reference population, i.e., between 10th percentile (-1.1 L) to 90th percentile (+1.1 L), while volumes below and above this range define underhydration and overhydration, respectively.

Peritoneal dialysis, normovolemia

Description:

All calculations are automatically performed by the software of the BCM device. Absolute over hydration (OH) is the difference between the expected patient's ECW under normal physiological conditions and the actual ECW, whereas the relative over hydration (Rel. OH) is defined as the OH to ECW ratio. Normohydration is defined when OH is between the 10th and the 90th percentile for healthy, age- and gender-matched individuals from the reference population, i.e., between 10th percentile (-1.1 L) to 90th percentile (+1.1 L), while volumes below and above this range define underhydration and overhydration, respectively.