Repeated serum creatinine measurement in primary care: Not all patients have chronic renal failure

Nesiritide Does Not Improve Renal Function in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure and Worsening Serum Creatinine

Background—Nesiritide (synthetic human brain natriuretic peptide) is approved for the treatment of symptomatic heart failure. However, studies of brain natriuretic peptide in patients with heart failure have come to conflicting conclusions about effects on glomerular filtration rate (GFR), effective renal plasma flow, natriuresis, and diuresis. Methods and Results—To identify a population at hi...

Creatinine metabolism in chronic renal failure.

1. Creatinine metabolism was studied in nine patients with severe chronic renal failure who were nevertheless in a nearly steady state with respect to their creatinine pool. Labelled creatinine was injected intravenously and the specific radioactivity of creatinine in urine was measured during the ensuing 5-7 days. 2. In each patient, the decline in specific radioactivity with time was a single...

Chronic Renal Failure and Its effects on Serum Lipids

Background: Metabolic disturbances and dyslipidemia are among the most important medical problems in human society. Their effects on the mortality of coronary heart disease (CHD) have lead to many investigations about them. Materials and Methods: An epidemiologic cross-sectional study was carried out on 10136 persons selected randomly in Tehran urban district 13 with a minimum age of 20 years ...

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them to "make the most of the limited time left." Parents vividly remembered the doctor's response to their distress. The doctor's ability to accept and understand the parents' grief was important in establishing trust and shaping the future relationship. Feelings of anger, guilt, and sadness are well known to be part of the process of grieving, which may begin at the time of diagnosis when the...

The unidentified fluorescent substance(s) in serum of patients with chronic renal failure: correlation with serum creatinine.