755000login-checkPre-transplant, atrial fibrillation more likely in patients on hemodialysis |
By Shawn M. Carter
Patients who receive hemodialysis prior to their first kidney transplant may be more likely to develop atrial fibrillation compared with patients who have peritoneal dialysis, according to recent data.
“Individuals with kidney failure receiving dialysis are at particularly high risk of [atrial fibrillation] AF, where as many as one in three patients receiving hemodialysis had an episode of AF during 6 months of rhythm monitoring using loop recorder devices,” Leonardo Pozo Garcia, MD, from the section of nephrology in the department of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, wrote with colleagues. Read the full story in Healio.
755000login-checkPre-transplant, atrial fibrillation more likely in patients on hemodialysis |