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Computed tomography to estimate cardiac preload and extravascular lung water. A retrospective analysis in critically ill patients

BACKGROUND: In critically ill patients intravascular volume status and pulmonary edema need to be quantified as soon as possible. Many critically ill patients undergo a computed tomography (CT)-scan of the thorax after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). This study investigates whether CT-ba...

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Autores principales: Saugel, Bernd, Holzapfel, Konstantin, Stollfuss, Jens, Schuster, Tibor, Phillip, Veit, Schultheiss, Caroline, Schmid, Roland M, Huber, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21605380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-19-31