It is assumed that near the stagnation point the free stream temperature is constant and a uniform transverse magnetic field is applied normal to the body surface.
At every instant in time, the influence of the body on the flow is accounted for by applying boundary conditions at Cartesian grid nodes located in the exterior but in the immediate vicinity of the body by reconstructing the solution along the local normal to the body surface.
The weight of normal kidneys varies with body surface and gender and is in the range of 130 to 160 g for men and 120 to 150 g for women [31].
Therefore, basal creatinine values were estimated from normal glomerular filtration rates that are normal for sex and age, standardized on body surface area (1.73 m) [ 12].
We chose this method because this equation yielded pediatric z-scores with an appropriate normal distribution across the entire range of body surface area on the basis of a large number of infants, children, and adolescents.
Thermography involved calculation of the averages of the absolute value of the temperature difference between the abnormal and normal sides (|ΔT| = |Body surface temperature of abnormal side - Body surface temperature of the symmetric part of the normal side|) (Figure 3, 4). Figure 3 Method for taking an image with thermography.
Pulmonary blood is around 5 ml/kg of body weight in pigs [19] and represents 10%to15%5% of the total blood volume in mammals [20] (normal values in humans: 220 to 270 ml/m2 of body surface area [21]).
CrCl was obtained daily from 24 h urine collection as a normal procedure in our ICU and normalised to body surface area, at the beginning and during vancomycin therapy [ 10, 13, 16].
In addition, 30 age- and body surface area-matched participants with structurally normal hearts were used as a control group.
Thermography showed that the body surface temperature was higher on the normal side than the abnormal side in some patients (n = 9), but the opposite pattern was observed in others (n = 8).
In intact normal skin viewed en face, LCs spread over the body surface forming a network with many characteristic dendritic protrusions, as observed in pre-cultured skin samples.
