METHOD FOR PREDICTING LETHALITY IN NEPHROLOGICAL PATIENTS

FIELD: medicine, nephrology. ^ SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with predicting lethality in dialysis patients at terminal stage of chronic renal failure (CRF) according to two values of central hemodynamics. One should analyze the values of central hemodynamics for the mass of left ventricular myocardium (mLVM) and diastolic reserve (DR) in 2 groups of CRF-patients: alive patients and those with lethality, due to applying the methods of mathematical computer multiple-factor discriminant assay, the results of which enable to obtain discriminant functions detected by the following formulas; D(y) = -16.388 + 0.084 * mLVM + 0.14 * DR - for CRF-patients with lethality, D(y) = -12.247 + 0.071 * mLVM + 0.092 * DR - for alive CRF-patients; the values of central hemodynamics of mLVM and DR for each patient should be applied for these formulas to specify a patient to be the member of the group where the highest value of discriminant function has been detected. ^ EFFECT: higher efficiency of prediction. ^ 2 ex, 1 tbl