Is serum transthyretin a reliable marker of nutritional status in patients with end-stage renal disease?

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 493-497

  Fellah, Hayet ^a   Omar, Souheil ^a   Feki, Moncef ^a   Abderrahim, Ezzedine ^b   Abdallah, Taieb Ben ^b   Massy, Ziad A ^c   Lacour, Bernard ^c   Maiz, Hedi Ben ^b   Kaabachi, Neziha ^a   Mebazaa, Abderraouf ^a  

^a LA RABTA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b CHARLES NICOLLE HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Hemodialysis; Malnutrition; Proteins of inflammation; Renal transplantation; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CYCLOSPORIN; IRON; PREALBUMIN; PREDNISONE; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; THIAMINE; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TURBIDIMETRY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREALBUMIN; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 41849128138     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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