Fluid balance assessment in pediatric hemodialysis patients by using whole-body bioimpedance spectroscopy (WB-BIS)

Ei E. Khin, Ayah Y. Elmaghrabi, Luis A. Alvarado, Vinai Modem, Raymond Quigley

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Abstract

Background: Fluid overload is a major factor in morbidity and mortality in dialysis patients. Whole-body bioimpedance spectroscopy (WB-BIS) is a noninvasive method for assessing fluid status. We hypothesized that fluid status measurement of changes in total body water (TBW), extracellular fluid (ECF), and intracellular fluid (ICF) by WB-BIS would correlate with the weight (Wt) changes before and after hemodialysis (HD) and the amount of ultrafiltration (UF) in pediatric HD patients. We also examined the relationship between the ECF percent of total body water (ECF%) and ECF/ICF ratio with the pre-HD systolic blood pressure percentile (SBP%ile). Methods: WB-BIS measurements were made both before and after HD on three separate occasions in each patient. Pre- and post-HD Wt, BP, and UF volumes were collected on the day of BIS measurement. Results: At total of 96 measurements were obtained from 16 HD patients. There were 6 females (mean age: 13.2 ± 4.5 yrs). UF correlated with changes in weight, TBW and ECF (p < 0.001) but not with ICF changes (p = 0.345). Pre-HD SBP%ile correlated with ECF%. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that WB-BIS can be used to monitor the fluid status in pediatric HD patients. The fluid that is removed from the patient during the HD treatment primarily comes from the ECF and not the ICF. Mobilization of fluid from the ICF appears to be delayed. Patients with significantly higher pre-HD ECF% and ECF/ICF ratio had higher pre-HD systolic BP. Graphical abstract: A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2449-2456
Number of pages8
JournalPediatric Nephrology
Volume37
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2022

Keywords

  • Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS)
  • Fluid overload
  • Hemodialysis
  • Systolic BP

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
  • Nephrology

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