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Breath acetone in congestive heart failure
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.