Nephrol Dial Transplant (2001) 16: 798-802
© 2001 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association
Changes in major blood components after adopting the supine position during haemodialysis
1 Asanagi Hospital, Takaoka-shi, Toyama, and 2 Department of Clinical Application, Institute of Natural Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama-shi, Toyama, Japan
Background. In Japan, haemodialysis (HD) is usually performed with patients in the supine position. However, the effects of changing posture on major blood components have not been investigated in HD patients. It is possible that several fluid components change rapidly when patients change from the upright to the supine position. We therefore investigated the effects of posture on blood component analysis.
Methods. A first blood sample was taken from 10 HD patients 5 min after they adopted a supine position; HD was begun immediately after sampling. Additional blood samples were collected 15 and 30 min later while patients remained in the supine position. On an alternate day, blood samples were taken from these same patients in the supine position, but not during HD. The same procedure was performed in 10 healthy volunteers.
Results. Haematocrit significantly decreased in patients undergoing HD at 15 and 30 min into the HD session. Similar decreases were observed in HD patients not undergoing HD and in normal control subjects. Haematocrit changes at 15 min were not significantly different between the three groups. Serum albumin concentrations decreased in the same way as haematocrit. Consequently, the reductions in haematocrit and albumin concentrations in HD patients during the HD session were not attributable to the HD procedure or to end-stage renal disease, but rather were due to the supine position and consequent haemodilution caused by redistribution of water from the extra- to the intravascular space. Finally, WBC counts decreased significantly at 15 min in both HD patient groups and in normal controls. The relative decrease at 15 min was significantly greater in HD patients undergoing HD (61.4% of baseline) than in those not undergoing HD (88.0%) or in normal controls (94.7%). These differences were probably due to previously reported WBC sequestration in the lungs during the early phase of HD.
Conclusions. This study suggests that the change from the upright to the supine positions during HD causes changes in blood components that are critical for quality control determinations.
Keywords: albumin; haematocrit; haemodialysis; plasma refilling; posture change; white blood cells
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Tomohito Hamazaki MD PhD, Department of Clinical Application, Institute of Natural Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama-shi, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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