BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health problem that may lead to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Renal transplantation has become the treatment modality of choice for the majority of patients with ESRD. It is therefore necessary to monitor the disease progression of patients who have undergone renal transplantation. In order to monitor the disease progression, the conti...

ABSTRACT: Patients with acute renal failure often have a negative energy balance, which promotes metabolic changes predisposing to complications. The objective of this study was evaluate laboratory parameters 30 dogs severe failure, assess their relationship the possibility developing pancreatitis due and correlate these findings degree failure. Serum concentrations urea, creatinine, beta-hydro...

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The effect of endotoxemia on renal function was studied in 76 orthotopic liver transplant patients. In the preoperative period, a high preoperative serum creatinine level (> 2.0 mg/dl) was significantly associated with postoperative endotoxemia. The serum total bilirubin level was significantly greater in the patients with high serum creatinine levels than in those with lower serum creatinine l...

AIM The aim of the research was to compare the relationship between inflammatory biomarkers and procoagulants with kidney function assessed by using cystatin C, serum creatinine, and eGFR and determine the sensitivity of cystatin C, serum creatinine and eGFR to total cardiovascular morbidity in patients with CKD stages 1-4. METHODS The research included 120 patients older than 18 years with C...

purpose: to evaluate the effects of silver nanoparticles on some serum parameters in mice. materials and methods: forty mice, including twenty male and twenty female, were randomly divided into eight groups: c1 and c2 (male and female control groups, respectively), t1, t2 and t3 (male treatment groups), t4, t5 and t6 (female treatment groups). after the acclimatization period, the treatment gro...

Pigmented serum, usually due to free haemoglobin and/or bilirubin, is a common finding in dogs with babesiosis, resulting in interference with all biochemical tests that rely on photochemistry. This is particularly true of urea and creatinine determinations, complicating the diagnosis of acute renal failure, which is a serious complication of babesiosis. A disproportionately raised serum urea c...

Received 2/18/2002; revised 3/4/2002; accepted 3/8/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Nan-Tsing Chiu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, 138 Sheng-Li Road, Tainan 704, Taiwan. Tel: (886)6-2353535 ext. 2480, Fax: (886)6-2766609, E mail: [email protected] Background: We conducted this study to explore the correlation of formula creatini...

The present study was undertaken to estimate the serum urea, creatinine and electrolyte status of patients presenting with acute gastroenteritis. Sixty patients who presented to Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching hospital from 15 June to 15 July 2005 with acute diarrhea with or without associated vomiting, causing dehydration severe enough to require hospital admission were investigated for...

The serum creatinine concentration is widely interpreted as a measure of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and is used as an index of renal function in clinical practice. Glomerular filtration of creatinine, however, is only one of the variables that determines its concentration in serum. Alterations in renal handling and metabolism of creatinine and methodological interferences in its measu...