Reduced hydration status characterized by disproportionate elevation of blood urea nitrogen to serum creatinine among the patients with cerebral infarction

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 601-604

  Akimoto, Tetsu ^a,b   Ito, Chiharu ^b   Kato, Maki ^b   Ogura, Manabu ^b   Muto, Shigeaki ^a   Kusano, Eiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Haga Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDITY;

BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CREATININE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; WATER;

EID: 80052641906     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.06.044     Document Type: Article

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