BACKGROUND Chronic fluid overload is associated with higher mortality in dialysis patients; however, the link with cardiovascular morbidity has not formally been established and may be influenced by subclinical inflammation. We hypothesized that a relationship exists between fluid overload and [i] cardiovascular laboratory parameter as well as between fluid overload and [ii] inflammatory labora...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) has a high hospital incidence and is associated to significant morbidity and mortality. Sepsis, major surgery and low cardiac output are the main cause of AKI worldwide. In the majority of these situations, volume expansion is part of both prevention and therapeutic management, restoring peripheral perfusion and attenuating drug nephrotoxicity. Early and aggressive vol...

OBJECTIVES To identify prognostic factors in children receiving continuous renal replacement therapy. DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING Neonatal and paediatric intensive care unit of a Hong Kong hospital. PATIENTS Neonatal or paediatric patients who received continuous renal replacement therapy from January 1998 to December 2008. RESULTS In all, 37 patients who received 39 episode...

BACKGROUND Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring initiation of renal replacement therapy (RRT) have poor short- and long-term outcomes, including the development of dialysis dependence. Currently, little is known about what factors may predict renal recovery in this population. METHODS We conducted a single-center, retrospective analysis of 170 hospitalized adult patients with AKI...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Mortality in patients who are on maintenance hemodialysis and have congestive heart failure is high in small cohort studies. The aim of this study was to determine long-term survival in a large cohort of dialysis patients with congestive heart failure and suspected fluid overload or pulmonary edema. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Data were analyzed, re...

Intraoperative volume administration has long been a topic of debate in the field of anesthesia. Only recently, however, has the conversation shifted to a discussion of appropriate intraoperative volume. A thorough review of the literature explores the history of today's widely accepted fluid administration equation and discusses possible explanations and consequences of iatrogenically induced ...

Anomalous heat absorption was observed in a closed Pd|D2O electrolysis system by Calvet calorimetry. The average excess power was – 14.6 mW over 105 hours period, which corresponds to a volume excess power of – 10.3 W/cm Pd and heat absorption of 3.81 MJ/cm Pd or 350 eV/atom Pd.

In traffic safety literature, crash frequency variables are analyzed using univariate count models or multivariate count models. In this study, we propose an alternative approach to modeling multiple crash frequency dependent variables. Instead of modeling the frequency of crashes we propose to analyze the proportion of crashes by vehicle type. A flexible mixed multinomial logit fractional spli...

Purpose To report a case of a giant retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) tear associated with fluid overload in a patient with diabetic macular edema (DME) and kidney disease. Observations A 60-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus and end-stage diabetic kidney disease who had gained weight because of fluid overload complained of a visual disturbance in the left eye that had started a few da...

Arteriovenous haemofiltration was used for removal of fluid overload in a 9 month old burned infant with diuretic resistant hypervolaemia. After 60 hours of arteriovenous haemofiltration hypervolaemia had disappeared. Arteriovenous haemofiltration proved to be a safe and simple extracorporal method of managing severe fluid overload.