[Relationship between late ventricular potentials and ventricular arrhythmias in patients in chronic dialysis treatment].

Background: Arrhythmias are frequent pathology in patients with chronic hemodialysis. We evaluated whether a relatively new technique, signal averaging, could be useful in predicting the development of complex arrhythmias in these patients.

Methods: Thirty-three patients, 18 male and 15 female, subjected to thrice weekly chronic hemodialytic treatment with various dialysis techniques, were studied.