Electrocardiographic changes in chronic hemodialysis children at Sohag university hospital.
Abstract: Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality among patients on chronic hemodialysis (HD). 30% of the deaths in these patients are due to cardiac arrest, death of unknown cause or cardiac arrhythmia. The increasing time of ventricular depolarization and repolarization, measured by QT interval duration on the electrocardiogram (ECG) at rest, has emerged as a predictor of ... Read more