Nomograms for the prediction of patient's plasma volume in plasma exchange therapy from height, weight, and hematocrit
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Apheresis
- Vol. 3 (3), 185-190
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jca.2920030313
Abstract
The knowledge of plasma volume (PV) is a basic requirement for the standardization of plasma exchange therapy. PV has to be determined by calculation, as the measurement of PV before every plasma exchange is too cost-and time consuming. A known correlation with measured values results from calculation of plasma volume by means of patient's height and weight. But the present equations are only reliable at normal hematocrit. For this reason we modified the Retzlaff-equations and compared the validity of plasma volume predictions, calculated by these and own equations, with plasma volume measured by the 51Cr-method in 59 patients with pathological hematocrit. The correlation coefficient was 0.82 for men and 0.81 for women (2 0.001) with the modified Retzlaff-equations. On the average the relative error was - 1.5% for all and 2.8% for fat and thin men. No significant improvement of accuracy was achieved with other equations. Thus, plasma volume can accurately be calculated from height, weight, and hematocrit with our modified Retzlaff-equations in patients with pathological hematocrit, even if they are very fat or thin. Nomograms for men and women were constructed in order to facilitate the calculation.Keywords
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