Can Dialysis Cause Arrythmias

Arrhythmias is the common complication of dialysis and it is the dangerous factor threatening life of patients. Now the related causes are recommended for dialysis patients with arrhythmias, and patients can do the prevention job well through adjusting the factors.

The causes for dialysis patients with arrhythmias:

1.Traditional factors. Ages, complications such as heart disease, diabetes, metabolic disorder, dysfunction of autonomic nerve, base-acid imbalance, low blood pressure and some long time of medicines all can lead to arrhythmia; in addition, dialysis complication of anemia can cause arrhythmia and it can be remitted by improving protein level in blood.

2.Dialysis related factors. Dialyzate concentration, dialysis pattern, dialysis stress , dialysis material biocompatibility can change the blood volume, blood flow speed and nutrition support for body, leading to arrhythmias.

3.Change of serum electrolyte. Potassium, calcium and magnesium has close relationship with heart. Low calcium can worsen the heart disease caused by high potassium. In addition, dialysis who are accompanied with hypercalcemia suffer the high risk of being attacked by arrhythmias.

4.Influence from medicines. Dialysis patients who take many medicines also would experience arrhythmias, so patients should pay more attention to the medicines.

Dialysis patients with slight arrhythmias may suffer symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, and palpitation, and the serious one may feel headache, fatigue, heart pain and so on. all in all, we must have close monitor for the physical changes of patients to prevent further body damages. If there are something wrong with dialysis patients, the common measures according to specific causes for arrhythmias include:

1.Adjusting the potassium, calcium and base-acid level.

2.Limiting the weight growth during dialysis and delay the ultrafiltration dehydration.

3.Choosing good biocompatibility dialyser to decrease the hemodynamics.

4.Correcting the complications of kidney failure.

5.Improving nutrition supply and controlling inflammation.

All in all, dialysis patients suffer a lot from dialysis complications and patients should try their best to improve their kidney functions, avoiding dialysis and getting rid of dialysis.

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