New compartmental model approach to dialysis

Med Biol Eng Comput. 1993 Mar;31(2):171-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02446676.

Abstract

Compartmental models are used for solving the problem of the control of dialysis therapy. The inadequacy of the existing monocompartmental model is faced, first with a careful analysis of the physiology of the system, then with a method focused on the construction of a new multicompartmental model. Moreover, impedance techniques allow us to solve the problem of measuring the total body water for each patient.

MeSH terms

  • Body Water / metabolism
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / metabolism
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy
  • Male
  • Models, Biological*
  • Renal Dialysis*