Patients with high pre-dialysis (pre-HD) fluid overload experience higher mortality risk compared with those with less pre-HD fluid burden [ 1, 8, 9].
It is an important strategy to reduce pre-HD fluid burden by restricting inter-dialysis weight gain and to achieve euvolemic (dry) weight post-HD by appropriate ultrafiltration.
A senior radiology consultant who was blinded as to their details evaluated them for pulmonary fluid burden using a numeric rating scale ranging from 0 to 32 (low = 0 to 10, moderate = 11 to 20 and high = 21+).
It has been reported that intensified HD could alleviate polyhydramnios by reducing fluid over-burden and lowering osmotic pressure [ 7, 11].
Cerebrospinal fluid fungal burden, altered mental status, and rate of clearance of infection predict acute mortality in HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis.
While a 7-day record appears to be a more reliable method to capture fluid intake, the burden associated with this instrument may impact its usability and acceptance in the general population.
We provide an analysis of factors associated with altered mental status, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fungal burden, CSF opening pressure (OP) at presentation, rate of clearance of infection, and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS).
It relies on an implicit fluid vocabulary and the burden on interpretation is almost completely on the accepter.
However, FP24 also accounts for 39% (~1.8 million units) of transfused plasma in the US, so the economic burden of fluid overload may be closer to $1 billion US, assuming that FP24 transfusion carries similar risks of fluid overload to FFP.
We next asked the question whether C. neoformans Ssn8 contributes to virulence by conducting animal survival, tissue burden, and cerebrospinal fluid analyses in a murine animal model.
