Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: CO-Rebreathing in Comparison to Isotopic Red Cell Volume Determination in the Diagnosis of Primitive and Secondary Polycythemia: a Multicentric Study. Co-Rebreathing for t
Brief Summary: The optimized CO-Rebreathing is an efficient method to evaluate the red cell mass and has been used in the vast majority of studies in sport medicine. However, this method has never been evaluated on a large scale in the diagnosis of primitive or secondary polycythemia. The standard procedure to evaluate the red cell mass is based on isotopic measurement using Cr51-labelled red cells, but its lack of availability in many centers highlights the need for a non-invasive and rapid alternative method. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and validate the CO-Rebreathing method in this set of indications.