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Abstract
Thirty patients on maintenance haemodialysis were studied and compared to twenty normal control peoples for the correlation between CRP level and cardiac hypertrophy , dysfunction.
Predialysis sampling of CRP level was done for the patients group and 3 weeks later another predialysis sampling was done. Echocardiograpic study for the patients was done at the start and follow up Echo was done after 3 months. The following data were available.
The mean age was 56.367±7.645 years and ranged between 42 and 70 years, with 28 males and 2 females.
The 1st measurement of CRP (CRP1) sample was ranging between 0.5 and 73.00 mg/L with mean 17.780±20.208 and the 2nd measurement of CRP (CRP2) sample was ranging between 1.30 and 68.20 with mean 19.980±19.113. P value of 0.143 with no statistical significant change between the two samples so as we used the CRP2 as a reference for comparison.
The CRP level was used to classify patients into normal level and high level groups according to the breaking normal level of up to 6mg/L .CRP level was compared with the general features of the patients including(age, sex ,D.M,H.T.N, weight gain, smoking, duration of dialysis) and with laboratory data including (Hb, creatinine and aLbumin), No statistical significant correlation was found between these data and CRP level .
Also the echocardiogrophic data of the patients were recorded twice with no statistical significant change between them ,We used the 1st Echo data to be correlated with the CRP level of the patient group and we found that:, the high CRP group contained more patients with large LA diameter (P.value<0.001), large EDD (P.value=0.001), large LVPWT (P.value<0.001) and more patients with decreased EF (P.value<0.001).