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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• 肾医 Eagen今天的医嘱里确实开了echo test, 不知道什么时候给胖子做。 -yankeeviv- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 16:43:12

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

• 记住了御医的话了。一定跟医生多沟通, 弄清楚他们方案背后的想法和关注点。 -yankeeviv- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/10/2015 postreply 17:50:40