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Background:
The investigator team had focused on heart failure (HF) treatment for many years and tried to develop non-invasive guide for HF treatment. Initially, the investigators had dedicated to use echocardiography to simulate Swan-Ganz and performed validation for non-invasive Swan-Ganz (echo
Maintaining volume control is crucial in all renal replacement therapy modalities. Fluid overload is associated with increased mortality both in hemodialysis patients and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients although peritoneal dialysis has the advantage of better preservation of residual renal
Introduction Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESDR) cannot regulate their fluid balance, and are dependent on dialysis for fluid removal. Fluid removal is dependent upon estimation of dry weight. Dry weight is defined as the post-dialysis weight under which a patient suffers (more often than
Step 1: Patient selection
The first step in the EGHEM/EGAM process is appropriate patient selection. Patients who have any of the following cardiovascular risk factors and/or comorbidities and are scheduled for a non-cardiac surgery are candidates for EGHEM/EGAM:
1. Urology/gynecology/General
The current medical management for heart failure invariably employs a 'one treatment fits all' approach. The failure to appreciate specific genotypic/phenotypic features in heart failure subjects is postulated to be a reason recent heart failure studies evaluating the efficacy of tumor necrosis