Introduction:
End stage renal disease (ESRD) is the terminal state of various chronic
kidney diseases. Such patients often accompany with different degrees of
myocardial remodeling and dysfunction. Hemodialysis is one of the main
treatment methods for these patients. It removes excessive fluid and
toxins in the body, with the decrease of preload, the final cardiac
systolic and diastolic function will also change slightly.Therefore,
echocardiography is needed to assess early changes in subclinical
cardiac function in ESRD patients [1-3].
Evaluation of left atrial strain by speckle tracking imaging has been
shown to play an important prognostic role in several different specific
populations [4-7], but there are few studies on
evaluation of left atrial strain before and after single hemodialysis.