Does sodium balance-neutral sodium profiling improve dialysis tolerance?
Sodium balance-neutral sodium profiling failed to improve dialysis tolerance in a group of stable chronic haemodialysis patients. This may be explained by the fact that vascular refilling as deduced from changes in haematocrit was uninfluenced by sodium profiling.
Calcification of the thoracic aorta, more specifically its descending segment, is associated with incident stroke in addition to established risk factors. CAC outperforms aortic calcification as a stroke predictor.