2016年2月3日星期三

What Are the Complications of Dialysis?

Dialysis is a kind of treatment at end stage of kidney disease. Although, dialysis can help to effectively clear away internal toxin and rectify the condition of poisoning, a series of complications can come out after long term of dialysis and threaten patients' lives. What are the complications of dialysis? Here are the specific complications of dialysis as follows:

1. Electrolyte disorder and unbalance of acid-base: it represents hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hyponatremia, hypernatremia, metabolic alkalosis, metabolic acidosis.

2.hypotension: hypotension usually occurs in the first several weeks at the begining of dialysis.

3. Lung infection, hydrothorax, ascites: Uremia patients have a low resistance. After a long term dialysis, the retention of dialysate pushes up musculus diaphragm, which causes the obstacle of aeration and leads to high incidence of hypostatic pneumonia.

4. Cardiovascular complications: it includes tachyarrhythmia, cardiac arrest, etc. This is caused by Hypovolemia, Hyperkalemia, hypocalcemia, hyponatremia, acidosis.

5. Imbalances syndrome


Other chronic complications of dialysis include hyperlipemia, vitamin lose, hypoproteinemia,etc. Dialysis patients often suffer those complications of dialysis and they seek for the way to get rid of dialysis.

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