Research Journal of Medical Sciences
Study of Prevalence of Pulmonary Hypertension Among Non‐Dialysis and Dialysis Dependent Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
Hemodialysis is associated with development of pulmonary hypertension (PH). However, maintenance dialysis has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients with CKD worldwide. It is important to detect the presence of pulmonary hypertension among patients undergoing hemodialysis, this is because CKD per se has increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality; but the genesis of pulmonary hypertension as a consequence of hemodialysis (a mode of RRT) will ha...