As Betadine said, BNP is not a specific parameter for heart fail

As Betadine said, BNP is not a specific parameter for heart failure, and I agree. It has no much meaning in a dialysis patient. It just shows the ventricle is some how overloaded. As long as more water filtered out via kidney, it will come down. To find out heart failure, doctor would do ECHO.


Metoprolol is a beta blocker, and which I used to take for hypertension. It also can be used to slow down the heart rate.

SO far, I haven't seen any big problem. Just keep close to the doctors, do not hesitate to discuss any of your concern. They are trained to keep medical ethics...

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• 腎醫 Eagen今天的醫囑裏確實開了echo test, 不知道什麽時候給胖子做。 -yankeeviv- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 16:43:12

• O.K. wait for ECHO, he might/might not have mild heart dysfuncti -禦用文人- ♀ (219 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 17:07:01

• 記住了禦醫的話了。一定跟醫生多溝通, 弄清楚他們方案背後的想法和關注點。 -yankeeviv- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 17:50:40