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T-Wave Morphology Changes as Surrogate for Blood Potassium Concentration in Hemodialysis Patients
December 2019 • Flavio Palmieri, Julia Ramírez, Pablo Laguna, Pedro Gomis, Dina Ferreira, José Esteban Ruiz, Beatriz Bergasa, Alba Martín-Yebra, Syed Hassaan Ahmed B…
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) are at high risk of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death as a result of blood potassium concentration ([K+ ]) changes. The aim of this study is to investigate if dw, a time-warping-based electrocardiogram (ECG) biomarker of T-wave morphology changes, reflects [K+] evolution in HD patients, facilitating noninvasive [K+] monitoring and avoiding in-hospital blood tests analysis. 48-hour ECGs and a set of hourly-collected blood samples from 12 ESRD p…