Hence, the improvement of renal function was reviewed by the difference in the admission creatinine and the lowest creatinine achieved or independence from dialysis if previously dialysis-requiring.
Resting BP and renal function were reviewed at 1 week by an independent assessor and if satisfactory, the daily dose was increased to two capsules (fosinopril 20 mg maximum or placebo).
Thus, we report here a case of life-threatening hyperkalemia secondary to the use of salt substitute in a patient with normal renal function, and review the pathophysiology of the associated medical factors that disrupted normal potassium homeostasis.
We reviewed the preceding renal function trajectory (for up to 2 years prior to ESRD) for those patients meeting criteria for rapid decline in kidney function.
The protocol change was made after a previous study, in which high-dose dexamethasone failed to provide a beneficial effect on peri-operative renal function [ 15] and review of other available evidence [ 7].
Accordingly, we reviewed the follow-up of renal function in all patients who received RRT on our ICU and survived to hospital discharge.
There are sparse data on scientifically based dosage regimens for various groups of patients – in particular, people with CF and subsets of critically ill patients with different levels of renal function (see Nation and Li's review 108).
Although at screening, this patient was eligible for the trial, when his serial antecedent results were reviewed it was clear that his renal function was fluctuating.
Articles that did not include diabetes-related metabolic outcomes (HbA1c, lipids, renal function) as a primary outcome measure, literature review papers, and opinion articles were also excluded.
Patients were excluded from this review if they had residual renal function during CVVH, were concomitantly on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or if the first dose of vancomycin was received six or more hours prior to the initiation of CVVH.
