The comparative benefits of the fractional excretion of urea and sodium in various azotemic oliguric states

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Diskin, Charles J ^a   Stokes, Thomas J ^a   Dansby, Linda M ^a   Radcliff, Lautrec ^a   Carter, Thomas B ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azotemia; Diagnosis; Renal failure; Renal physiology; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; SODIUM; UREA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; EXCRETION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL EXCRETION OF SODIUM; FRACTIONAL EXCRETION OF UREA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OLIGURIC AZOTEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEPSIS; URINALYSIS;

AGED; AZOTEMIA; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGURIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM; UREA;

EID: 70350536898     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000254387     Document Type: Article

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