Abstract:Background: Heart failure (HF) is a healthcare problem burdening patients, care teams, and health care systems. A relentless, downward spiral of decompensation, hospital admission, and functional deterioration is challenging to break, partly because of the lack of an objective, inexpensive tool to aid the clinicians physical examination. We studied performance of a shortwave infrared (SWIR) molecular chemical imaging (MCI) tool to measure relative tissue congestion (TC) in HF patients shins, compared to MRI Di… Show more
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