Does intraoperative Continuous Veno-Venous Hemofiltration facilitate Surgery in Liver Transplant Patients With Acute Renal Failure?
The judicious use of intraoperative CVVH therapy may permit patients with increasing severity of illness to achieve outcomes comparable with less ill patients.
The highly popularized protective effect of increased BMI on survival in HD patients is significantly influenced by the method of hemodialysis access. There is greater use of permanent access among patients with high BMI compared with patients with normal BMI. There remains a critical need to increase permanent access utilization at incident hemodialysis so as to improve survival irrespective of BMI status.