Toshio SHIMADA ¹, Keiko SUZUKI², Kazuya SANO ¹, Kazuaki TANABE ¹, Yutaka ISHIBASHI ¹, Jun KITAMURA ¹, Yo MURAKAMI ¹, Rinji MURAKAMI ¹, Shigefumi MORIOKA ¹

¹Fourth Department of Internal Medicine Shimane Medical University, ²Ohtsuka Clinic

キーワード : Atrial natriuretic peptide , Doppler echocardiography , Hemodialysis, M-mode echocardiography

This study was designed to determine the clinical implications of plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) level before and after hemodialysis (HD). The subjects were 66 chronic hemodialyzed patients. Duration of HD varied from 6 to 251 months. The patient population was divided into two groups separated at 70 pg/ml ANP after HD: 55 patients belonged to group 1 (≥ 70 mg/ml); 11, to group 2 (