Is bowel preparation before colonoscopy a risky business for the kidney?

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 606-614

  Lien, Yeong Hau H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Bowel cleansing; Nephrocalcinosis; Oral sodium phosphate solution; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM;

CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CATHARTICS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRRIGATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHOSPHATES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 54949143941     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0939     Document Type: Review

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