Therapeutic influence of 20 % albumin versus 6% hydroxyethylstarch on extravascular lung water in septic patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Martin Dolecek, P Svoboda, Ilona Kantorová, Peter Scheer, Igor Sas, Jitka Bíbrová, Jana Radvanová, Martin Radvan

PubMed · 2010 · 42 citations · 0 references

Abstract

The present study results show can summarize that albumin reduces in a higher amount and earlier the extravascular lung water than HES, but this reduction was not associated with improvement of oxygenation functions, which was better in HES group.