Total Body Water Determination: Have We To Adapt Its Determination To The Patient Clinical Status?

The correct assessment of the total body water (TBW) is a crucial issue of the renal replacement therapy due to it represents the urea distribution volume, used for the determination of the dialysis adequacy Kt/V. Our objective was to study the correlation between the TBW estimated by Watson formula...

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Main Authors: Almudena Pérez Torres, Elena González, Rafael J Sánchez-Villanueva, Pilar Martinez Rubio, Ana Aguilar, Marta Ossorio, Carlos Castel, Auxiliadora Bajo, Rafael Selgas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Korean Society of Nephrology 2012-06-01
Series:Kidney Research and Clinical Practice
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211913212004202