Evaluation of clinical dry weight assessment in haemodialysis patients using bioimpedance spectroscopy: a cross-sectional study

• Published in: Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 545 - 551
• Main Authors: Passauer, Jens, Petrov, Helga, Schleser, Andreas, Leicht, Joachim, Pucalka, Klaus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.02.2010
• Subjects: Aged; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; bioimpedance spectroscopy; Biological and medical sciences; Body Weight; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diabetic Nephropathies - physiopathology; Diabetic Nephropathies - therapy; Electric Impedance; Emergency and intensive care: renal failure. Dialysis management; Extracellular Fluid; extracellular volume; Female; haemodialysis; Humans; Intensive care medicine; Kidney Failure, Chronic - physiopathology; Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Renal Dialysis - methods; Spectrum Analysis; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Surgery of the urinary system; haemodialysis; bioimpedance spectroscopy; extracellular volume; Kidney disease; Human; Extrarenal dialysis; Urinary system disease; Hemodialysis; Cross sectional study; Renal failure; Dry weight
• ISSN: 0931-0509; 1460-2385; 1460-2385
• DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp517

Background. Dry weight assessment (DWA) is essential to efficient therapy of haemodialysis (HD) patients. However, so far objective methods for DWA have not been applicable to daily routine. Thus, exact fluid management in HD remains difficult and is often based on clinical criteria. The aims of thi...