A striking feature of most patients presenting with heart failure (HF) is the presence of pulmonary oedema, peripheral oedema, or both. Cardiogenic congestion usually responds well to diuretic therapy ...

A new technique estimates the average capillary pressure curve for a reservoir. Data from the Western Desert in Egypt were used to develop the correlations. Application of the method to four ...

The clinical determination of the intravascular volume can be extremely difficult in critically ill and injured patients as well as those undergoing major surgery. This is problematic as fluid loading ...

A hydrostatic stress is one for which the diagonal terms of the stress tensor are of equal value and the off-diagonal terms are zero. For this situation the diagonal terms are equal to -p, where p is ...