A 48-year-old obese male (body mass index, 33), who was an active smoker, was admitted to our department to undergo percutaneous angioplasty of a markedly stenosed left renal artery. Six months earlier, severe hypertension (blood pressure, 200/100 mm Hg) associated with hypokalemia of renal origin (serum potassium level, 3.1 mmol/l; urinary potassium, 75 mmol/day) and stage III chronic kidney d...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Polyuria, polydipsia, and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus have been associated with use of psychotropic medications, especially lithium. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS The impact of psychotropic medications on urinary concentrating ability and urinary aquaporin 2 (AQP2) excretion was investigated after overnight fluid deprivation, and over 6 h after 40 ...

The blood pressure patterns of three Kenyan communities have been studied: 861 members of the Luo tribe in a rural community, 281 members of the Kamba tribe in a rural community and 310 "urban" Luo living in Nairobi. The slope of linear regression of blood pressure with age was significantly different in each population: rural Luo had the smallest rise with age and urban Luo had the largest ris...

Many studies have suggested that African Americans have a higher prevalence of hypertension than whites. The authors conducted a prospective study of hypertension incidence from 1987-1988 to 1994-1995 in 140 African American and 237 white adults aged 30 to 54 years at baseline. The study participants were screened for participation in the Trials of Hypertension Prevention, phase 1, an 18-month ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare serum and urinary HER2/neu levels between healthy control group and patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. Additionally, we evaluated relationship of HER2/neu levels with tumor stage, grade, recurrence and progression. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fourty-four patients with primary non-muscle invasive bladder tumors (Group 2) and 40 healthy control group (Grou...

Background and Aim: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in decompensated cirrhosis serves as an independent predictor of prognosis. Hence, early identification AKI plays pivotal role planning management better clinical outcome such patients. The main objective this study was to determine spot urine sodium potassium (Na/K) ratio patients admitted with evaluating its correlation ac...

The aim was to evaluate the usefulness of urinary N-terminal fragment of B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) measurement for predicting the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in 160 asymptomatic patients with essential hypertension. The urinary NT-proBNP/creatinine ratio was higher in patients with LVH than in either those without LVH (P< .0001) or control subjects (P< .0001). Mu...