Intrathoracic Impedance Monitoring in Patients With Heart Failure
Author(s) -
CheukMan Yu,
Li Wang,
Elaine Chau,
Raymond Hon-Wah Chan,
ShunLing Kong,
MANOI TANG,
Jill Christensen,
Robert Stadler,
ChuPak Lau
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.104.492207
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , cardiology , intensive care medicine
Patients with heart failure are frequently hospitalized for fluid overload. A reliable method for chronic monitoring of fluid status is therefore desirable. We evaluated an implantable system capable of measuring intrathoracic impedance to identify potential fluid overload before heart failure hospitalization and to determine the correlation between intrathoracic impedance and standard measures of fluid status during hospitalization.
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