| Both chronic/acute renal failures could cause the respiratory dysfunction, since controversies exist
among the limited studies evaluated the pulmonary function in end-stage renal disease (ESRD)
patients with hemodialysis. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the acute effects of
Hemodialysis treatment on spirometer-parameters among chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. In
this cross sectional-descriptive study, the spirometer was conducted twice for the eligible Patients:
before and immediately after the hemodialysis. The before and after dialysis measured parameters
were: forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), vital capacity
(VC), and the FEV1/FVC ratio. The spirometry parameters before and after the dialysis had no
significant changes (0.05 0.05). In conclusion, the dialysis can be useful in improving the pulmonary
functional tests in patients and also the dialysis may improve the patient’s airway resistance,
considerably. But according to our results, the effect of dialysis on airway resistance especially in the
5 Hz was statistically significant. Further studies with bigger study population are recommended for
further investigations. |