(n.) A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.
Example Sentences:
(1) induced by mitomycin C, collected from 1976 to 1982 in 12 Nephrology Centers.
(2) Nephrology fellows performed 83.5% of the biopsies.
(3) Seventeen patients with different nephrologic disorders or hypertension were first studied with OIH and then reinvestigated with MAG3 2-8 days later.
(4) In our judgment, gravidas with established SLE should be managed in a perinatal program with an expertise available for careful systematic fetal monitoring; ready access to consultants in nephrology, rheumatology, and other relevant disciplines; and inpatient facilities for complicated gestations.
(5) To provide a realistic picture of the patient case load of a pediatric nephrologist in a teaching hospital, we analyzed the number, the demographics, and the reasons for patient referral to our pediatric nephrology program over a 10-year period.
(6) It may be excepted that their therapeutic application will in the near future be extended also to clinical nephrology.
(7) Plasma exchanges are indicated in several diseases in children, mainly immunologic, hematologic and nephrologic disorders.
(8) The data of 300 children followed up for a wide bladder neck and posterior urethra at the Nephrology Clinic of Heim Pál Children's Hospital, Budapest, are reviewed.
(9) Prospective controlled study in patients with edema referred to a nephrology clinic.
(10) The authors have studied the cost of the different treatments proposed in ESRD to patients attended by the same nephrologic team.
(11) The application and use of radio-isotopes in nephrology have been neglected by clinicians.
(12) The results of a survey designed to identify existing images of nephrology nursing practice are reported.
(13) The CO2 laser was used successfully for surgery in 43 nephrologic patients.
(14) This report describes a 23-year experience with renal transplantation in infants, children, and adolescents at the Children's Renal Center of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
(15) Financial disincentives by DRGs may affect both the access and quality of care for groups of nephrology patients in the future.
(16) Such an approach will keep a constant turnover of patients and will help in research efforts toward better understanding of problems in nephrology.
(17) ), increased number of patients with dysuria or sterile leukocyturia gave stimulus to studies of 615 patients from Department of Nephrology and District Outpatient Nephrological Care Unit with regard to infections with that microbes.
(18) Skilled anesthesia, consultative support in nephrology, respirology, pediatrics and infectious diseases, a blood bank, access to human allograft and good microbiology support are necessary.
(19) In a strictly selected material of 80 patients, who were all outpatients of a special nephrological clinic, with chronic renal insufficiency with retention values of 1.4-14.5 mg% serum creatinine, an EEG was done besides thorough neurological and internal examinations.
(20) Some neurophysiological techniques have been employed in clinical nephrology to record abnormalities of nervous conduction in central and peripheral pathways.
Renal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(2) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(3) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(4) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(5) We studied 15 renal transplant recipients for evidence of tubular dysfunction.
(6) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(7) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(8) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(9) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(10) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(11) Associated renal and other abnormalities were common.
(12) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
(13) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(16) Cytochemical studies on renal peroxisomes were in agreement with these biochemical findings.
(17) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(18) Furthermore, renal function in the elderly patient with CHF is markedly compromised.
(19) Unbound fractions was significantly correlated with serum albumin concentration (r = -0.344, p less than 0.046) and renal clearance (r = 0.394, p less than 0.021) but not with total body clearance or volume of distribution.
(20) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.