Body Impedance Studies in End-Stage Heart Failure

作者：Davide Stellato, Massimo Círillo, Luca Salvatore De Santo, Ciro Maiello, Claudio Marra, Fabrizio De Vivo, Pietro Anastasio, Annamaria Frangiosa, M. Francesca Cotrufo, Natale Gaspare De Santo, Biagio Raffaele Di Iorio · 发表于：Mineral and Electrolyte Metabolism · 年份：1999 · DOI：10.1159/000057413 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Body Composition Measurement Techniques、Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography、Nutrition and Health in Aging

This study adds another category of patients to those amenable to body impedance analysis (BIA). BIA measurements were obtained for the first time in 23 male patients with end-stage heart failure who were waiting for heart transplantation, and the data were compared with those obtained in 69 healthy controls matched for age, sex, height and weight. The data indicate that in end-stage heart failure there is an increased reactance (p<0.01) and an altered intracellular water/extracellular water ratio (p<0.03) due to the increased intracellular water (p<0.01) and decreased extracellular water (p<0.01).