title: New compartmental model approach to dialysis.
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.
authors.affiliation: CNR Centro Teoria dei Sistemi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liberati
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Biasioli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Foroni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rudello
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Turkheimer
mesh_terms: D001834:Body Water / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D006435:Renal Dialysis