Prognostic impact of the indexation of left ventricular mass in patients undergoing dialysis
C Zoccali, FA Benedetto, F Mallamaci… - Journal of the …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is exceedingly frequent in patients undergoing dialysis.
Cardiac mass is proportional to body size, but the influence of various indexing methods has
not been studied in patients with end-stage renal disease. The issue is important because
malnutrition and volume expansion would both tend to distort the estimate of LV mass (LVM)
in these patients. In a cohort of 254 patients, the prognostic impact on all-cause mortality and
cardiovascular outcomes of LVH values, calculated according to two established methods of …
Cardiac mass is proportional to body size, but the influence of various indexing methods has
not been studied in patients with end-stage renal disease. The issue is important because
malnutrition and volume expansion would both tend to distort the estimate of LV mass (LVM)
in these patients. In a cohort of 254 patients, the prognostic impact on all-cause mortality and
cardiovascular outcomes of LVH values, calculated according to two established methods of …