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SUBMITTER: Tamaki S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7892481 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tamaki Shunsuke S Yamada Takahisa T Morita Takashi T Furukawa Yoshio Y Iwasaki Yusuke Y Kawasaki Masato M Kikuchi Atsushi A Kawai Tsutomu T Seo Masahiro M Abe Makoto M Nakamura Jun J Yamamoto Kyoko K Kayama Kiyomi K Kawahira Masatsugu M Tanabe Kazuya K Ueda Kunpei K Kimura Takanari T Sakamoto Daisuke D Fukunami Masatake M
Circulation reports 20190824 9
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Congestion is one of the main predictors of poor outcome in patients with heart failure (HF); thus, a simple tool to evaluate plasma volume (PV), which can be used for risk stratification of HF patients, is necessary. We sought to compare the prognostic values of commonly used formulas for the estimation of PV and relative PV status (PVS) in patients admitted with acute decompensated HF (ADHF). <b><i>Methods and Results:</i></b> We analyzed 384 consecutive ADHF patients ...[more]