<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Heart failure is a chronic disease marked by frequent hospitalizations due to pulmonary fluid congestion. Monitoring the thoracic fluid status may favor the detection of fluid congestion in an early stage and enable targeted preventive measures. Bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS) has been used in combination with the Cole model for monitoring body composition including fluid status. The model parameters reflect intracellular and extracellular fluid volume as well as cell sizes, types and interactions. Transthoracic BIS may be a suitable approach to monitoring variations in thoracic fluid content.</p></abstract>

Heart failure is a chronic disease marked by frequent hospitalizations due to pulmonary fluid congestion. Monitoring the thoracic fluid status may favor the detection of fluid congestion in an early stage and enable targeted preventive measures. Bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS) has been used in combination with the Cole model for monitoring body composition including fluid status. The model parameters reflect intracellular and extracellular fluid volume as well as cell sizes, types and interactions. Transthoracic BIS may be a suitable approach to monitoring variations in thoracic fluid content.

Monitoring thoracic fluid content using bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy and Cole modeling

Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance

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Heart failure is a chronic disease marked by frequent hospitalizations due to pulmonary fluid congestion. Monitoring the thoracic fluid status may favor the...

Monitoring thoracic fluid content using bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy and Cole modeling

Article Category: Articles

Online veröffentlicht: 29. Dez. 2017

Seitenbereich: 107 - 115

Eingereicht: 31. Okt. 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jeb.5611

Schlüsselwörter
Thoracic impedance, Cole model, blood shift

© 2017 Silviu Dovancescu, Salvatore Saporito, Ingeborg H. F. Herold, Hendrikus H. M. Korsten, Ronald M. Aarts, and Massimo Mischi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Monitoring thoracic fluid content using bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy and Cole modeling

Article Category: Articles

Online veröffentlicht: 29. Dez. 2017

Seitenbereich: 107 - 115

Eingereicht: 31. Okt. 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jeb.5611

SchlüsselwörterThoracic impedance, Cole model, blood shift

© 2017 Silviu Dovancescu, Salvatore Saporito, Ingeborg H. F. Herold, Hendrikus H. M. Korsten, Ronald M. Aarts, and Massimo Mischi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Thoracic impedance, Cole model, blood shift