title: Usefulness of continuous renal replacement therapy for correcting hypernatremia in a patient with severe congestive heart failure.
abstract: Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is used as an alternative to intermittent hemodialysis (IHD) in patients who have acute kidney injury (AKI) and cannot tolerate IHD. Several studies have reported the usefulness of CRRT in treating sepsis, which is a non-renal indication for CRRT. Recently, CRRT was also introduced as a useful tool for treating severe congestive heart failure (CHF). By using CRRT, we successfully treated hypernatremia in a patient with severe CHF, without observing any fluid overload. Therefore, we report this case to suggest that CRRT should be considered for the treatment of hypernatremia in patients with severe CHF.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Hoon Suk
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Yu Ah
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Hyun Gyung
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sun Ryoung
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: In O
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Byung Ha
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Cheol Whee
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Chul Woo
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yong Soo
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Bum Soon
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000628:therapy*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000097:blood* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006955:Hypernatremia / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017582:Renal Replacement Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome