Heart disease and dialysis patients

[kitkatz]

I learned something at the Renal Network meeting:

Before dialysis the doctors worry about keeping renal functiong oing.
After dialysis the doctors worry about your heart disease.

Interesting?

[Treasure]

Yeppers. Very interesting. I have always suspected that the ensuing heart disease would get me, if I remained on dialysis for very long. I was relieved when I did a full cardiac workup three years ago for my transplant evaluation and found that my heart was in good shape.

But here we are-- three years in, and a lot of freaky cardiac things are going on. I presented to the emergency room last week with shortness of breath-- that I had been battling for over a month (I thought I had pneumonia...). While I was at the hospital, they did a troponin test and said that I had had a heart attack. This I found amusing because I was doing hip-hop dancing in my room not long before the test. They returned a bit later, after they started the  process for a angiogram/angioplasty and said that their lab made a mistake and that the troponin test was incorrect. After doing a dialysis run, they released me.

Today at dialysis, they did a BNP and it was off the scale. So, I have to find a cardiologist that knows what to make of these exaggerated cardiac tests results, and find out if I truly have heart problems (an echo I did last week in the hospital said everything was fine).

Has anyone else had cardiac enzyme tests that were way whacky?  Has dialysis done my heart in in such a short time?

Treasure....
ps. Hi guys! Sorry for the extended absence....hehehe

[fluffy]

i gotta get around to doing some heart tests, i just stearted hemo a couple months agaoand heard its harder on your heart than pd. this worries me