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Breath acetone in congestive heart failure

M Kupari¹, J Lommi, M Ventilä

¹Division of Cardiology (Department of Medicine), Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland.

The American Journal of Cardiology

|November 15, 1995

Abstract:

To summarize, CHF predisposes to postabsorptive ketosis in relation to the severity of venous congestion. A simple and fully noninvasive measurement of breath acetone may add to the diagnostic assessment of patients with CHF.

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