January 11, 2002 - Here are two recent scientific articles on body water volumes:

• "Urea volume of distribution exceeds total body water in patients with acute renal failure" - abstract from Kidney International
  
  
  
• "Bipedal bioelectrical impedance analysis reproducibly estimates total body water in hemodialysis patients" - abstract from AJKD

December 20, 2001 - Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) and Xitron Technologies Inc. have developed a non-invasive process to determine reliably the dry weight of dialysis patients. The system will be introduced onto the market in the first half of 2002. Press release from FMC AG.

Here is the Hydra ECF/ICF System from the Xitron Technologies web site.


[This message has been edited by Gary Peterson (edited 04-11-2002).]