2015年12月16日星期三

Side Effects and Complications of Hemodialysis

Hemodialysis is used to remove the extra fluid and metabolic wastes from body when the kidneys can not function normally. In recent years, the safety of hemodialysis has improved greatly. However, during its producer, it still can cause some common problems. As follows:

1. Hypotension

As most of the patients with Renal Failure do not have urine or only have little, they have to use hemodialysis to remove the extra fluid from their body. Therefore, the accumulated fluid in body has to be discharged out of body at a rapid speed in dialysis. Therefore, the fluid removable through ultrafiltration often causes hypotension, fatigue, cramps, nausea and headache. However, these symptoms can be eliminated or alleviated by shortening the dialysis intervals and prolonging the dialysis time for every treatment.

2. Bleeding

Heparin is commonly used in hemodialysis to prevent thrombosis. However, it may cause a low platelet count thus causing bleeding. In this case, alternative anticoagulants can be used. If the patients have the bleeding tendency, they should stop use anticoagulation.

3. Infection

The patients on hemodialysis need to expose their circulatory circulation to microbes, which is very likely to cause septicemia. For the patients on hemodialysis, septicemia is responsible for more than 75% of the infectious death.

4. Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular diseases account for more than 50% if the deaths for the patients on hemodialysis. It is mainly caused by arrhythmia cardiomyopathy, ischemia heart disease and so on.


As some side effects and complications of hemodialysis can threaten the patients’ live seriously, it is very important for them to take preventive measures to avoid the above problems. If you are tormented by those problems and want to get more information about how to deal with them , please email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com or consult us on line.

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