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

• Main Authors: Almudena Pérez Torres (Author), Elena González (Author), Rafael J Sánchez-Villanueva (Author), Pilar Martinez Rubio (Author), Ana Aguilar (Author), Marta Ossorio (Author), Carlos Castel (Author), Auxiliadora Bajo (Author), Rafael Selgas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Korean Society of Nephrology, 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...