Medical history / diagnosis
A 62 year-old woman with chronic renal insufficiency has been on dialysis for eight years. As part of the procedure, dry weight has to be determined regularly. Simple weighing allows to determine the removed water, but there is no way of knowing whether the patient’s settings are correct – how “dry” the dry weight really is. This includes the issue of whether the water balance following dialysis is in the normal range. To this end, body composition needs to be determined with the aid of the seca mBCA.