Current Issues in Measurement and Reporting of Urinary Albumin Excretion National Kidney Disease Education Program-IFCC Working Group on Standardization of Albumin in Urine Clinical Chemistry. 2009;55:24-38 Background: Urinary excretion of albumin indicates kidney…
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Membrane lipids: where they are and how they behave Gerrit van Meer, Dennis R. Voelker and Gerald W. Feigenson Fulltext Throughout the biological world, a 30 Å hydrophobic film typically delimits the environments…
What serum calcium can tell us and what it can’t. Houillier P, Froissart M, Maruani G, Blanchard A. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2006 Jan;21(1):29-32 As in normal subjects and patients with normal renal function,…
Hyperkalemia. Hollander-Rodriguez JC, Calvert JF Jr. Am Fam Physician. 2006 Jan 15;73(2):283-90. Hyperkalemia is a potentially life-threatening metabolic problem caused by inability of the kidneys to excrete potassium, impairment of the mechanisms that…
Biochemical markers of acute pancreatitis. Matull WR, Pereira SP, O’Donohue JW. J Clin Pathol. 2006 Apr;59(4):340-4. Serum amylase remains the most commonly used biochemical marker for the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, but its…
Systematic review on urine albumin testing for early detection of diabetic complications. Newman DJ, Mattock MB, Dawnay AB, Kerry S, McGuire A, Yaqoob M, Hitman GA, Hawke C. Health Technol Assess. 2005 Aug;9(30):iii-vi,…
Microalbuminuria and urinary albumin excretion: French clinical practice guidelines. Halimi JM, Hadjadj S, Aboyans V, Allaert FA, Artigou JY, Beaufils M, Berrut G, Fauvel JP, Gin H, Nitenberg A, Renversez JC, Rusch E,…
Primary hyperparathyroidism and familial hyperparathyroid syndromes. Blackburn M, Diamond T. Aust Fam Physician. 2007 Dec;36(12):1029-33. BACKGROUND: Ninety percent of cases of hypercalcaemia are due to primary hyperparathyroidism or hypercalcaemia of malignancy. OBJECTIVE: This…
Blood biomarkers of vitamin D status. Zerwekh JE Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Apr;87(4):1087S-91S. In the past quarter century, more than 50 metabolites of vitamin D have been described. To date, only a…
C-reactive protein: a critical update Mark B. Pepys and Gideon M. Hirschfield J Clin Invest. 2003;111(12):1805–1812 CRP, named for its capacity to precipitate the somatic C-polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae, was the first acute-phase…
Subclinical Hypothyroidism Melissa Gillett JAMA 2004;291: 228-38 Definition of Subclinical Hypothyroidism Patients with subclinical thyroid disease have few or no symptoms or signs of thyroid dysfunction and thus by its very nature subclinical…