Sentence examples for poor kidney function from inspiring English sources

Poor kidney function can also lead to a high buildup of uric acid in the blood plasma.

Many patients with urothelial cancer cannot receive cisplatin because of severe disability, poor kidney function or other diseases.

When my husband asked Dr. Violi what caused pre-eclampsia, she called it "a medical mystery," one only intensified by the breadth of its range of symptoms, which include high blood pressure, edema (swelling), elevated liver enzymes and poor kidney function.

Such violations could include altering medical records in order to get a patient into an H.I.V. treatment trial, downplaying a substance abuse history in order to help a patient enroll in a trial on depression, or artificially improving an otherwise poor kidney function test by having a patient drink a gallon of water the night before the study's blood draw.

The 28-question survey revealed that only about one in five knew that protein in the urine was a sign of poor kidney function and that kidney disease often progresses without causing any symptoms.

Kidney disease often is not on the medical radar, and in as many as three-fourths of patients with risk factors for poor kidney function, physicians fail to use a simple, inexpensive test to check for urinary protein.

Association between higher urinary KIM-1 levels and poorer kidney function was found in some human studies in native [ 10, 14] and transplanted kidneys [ 15] but data on human tissue KIM-1 expression are scarce.

Clinical data such as diagnosis, kidney function represented by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), chronic kidney disease stage with a higher stage equivalent to poorer kidney function [ 19], and steroid therapy resistance in NS patients were abstracted from medical records by the local study team.

But unexpectedly, the study did not find a link between deceased-donor kidney injury and poor kidney transplant function six months later.

Further studies in humans are underway addressing whether endothelial surface layer perturbation indicates a poor outcome for kidney function and whether restoration could provide a valuable target to prevent vascular disease progression in general.

There is some concern that sirolimus may be associated with poor long-term kidney function and a higher risk of death 13– 13.