Dialysis
Diagnostic model helps detect cardiomegaly in dialysis patients
Published in Blood Weekly, July 15th, 2004
"Cardiomegaly and accompanying complications contribute to morbidity and mortality in patients on hemodialysis," scientists in New York explained.
A. Dobson and colleagues at Cornell University conducted a study "to provide a measure of heart blood volume from data collected during routine measurement of cardiac output during hemodialysis."
"A heart model based upon the probability of transfer between chambers during a cardiac cycle generates both the distribution of transit times (dilution curve) and the blood volumes in the chambers of...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2004-07-15)
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