The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors of hypoalbuminemia and effects of different albumin levels on the prognosis of surgical septic patients. We preformed a retrospective clinical study including 135 adult patients from September 2011 to June 2014. The albumin levels and severity markers were recorded during the first 48 h after enrollment, and logistic regression analyses ...

Rats of the Milan Normotensive Strain (MNS) develop a dyslipoproteinemia that is associated with a spontaneous, age-dependent and slowly progressive nephropathy characterized by proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia (nephrotic syndrome). We assumed that the MNS strain might be a suitable model for studying the features of nephrotic dyslipoproteinemia and its relationship with proteinuria, hypoalbumin...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the clinical value of serum albumin levels for the evaluation and prognosis of late preterm infants with infections. MATERIAL/METHODS This was a retrospective study performed in late preterm infants admitted at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the Liaocheng People's Hospital between July 2012 and March 2013. Data, including laboratory test results, ne...