Extravascular Lung Water and Peripheral Volume Status in Hemodialysis Patients With and Without a History of Heart Failure
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in ASAIO Journal
- Vol. 52 (4), 423-429
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.mat.0000221751.98144.03
Abstract
Determining volume status in hemodialysis patients with a history of congestive heart failure (CHF) is difficult. Extravascular lung water (EVLW) may be derived from blood ultrasound velocity changes following injections of 0.9% and 5% saline. Bioimpedance spectroscopy can measure total body water (TBW) and its intracellular fluid (ICF) and extracellular fluid (ECF) compartments. We studied 29 clinically euvolemic hemodialysis patients, 12 of whom had a history of CHF. The ECF and ICF were measured before dialysis, and EVLW was measured during dialysis. Values of EVLW were similar between patients without CHF and those with CHF (3.55 ml/kg +/- 0.94 SD versus 3.88 ml/kg +/- 0.82 SD, respectively; p = NS). The ECF/ICF ratio was higher among patients with a history of CHF (1.27 +/- 0.29) than among those without such a history (1.04 +/- 0.04; p < 0.05), indicating that ECF volume overload was present in both groups, but was higher in those with a CHF history. There was a positive correlation between EVLW and ECF/ICF ratios (r = 0.54, p < 0.01). Measurements of EVLW were higher in two pulmonary edema patients ((7.95 ml/kg and 5.95 ml/kg; p < 0.05). The results of this study suggest that 1) hemodialysis patients with a history of CHF have more ECF volume overloaded than those without such a history; 2) the degree of ECF expansion is associated with increasing EVLW volume, even in patients without pulmonary edema; and 3) ECF volume expansion eventually exceeds limits and pulmonary edema occurs. These developing technologies of volume measurement may be of value in this challenging clinical area.Keywords
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