Monitoring of Daily Body Weight and Intrathoracic Impedance in Heart Failure Patients With a High Risk of Volume Overload Decompensation

ConclusionsDecompensation is marked by a decrease in Z and increase in BW the preceding 30 days. Monitoring of Z predicts HF decompensations with better sensitivity and lower unexplained detection rate than BW.

Source: Clinical Cardiology - May 12, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kristjan Gudmundsson, Patrik Lyngå, Mårten Rosenqvist, Frieder Braunschweig Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research