Sentences with phrase «glomerular filtration»

• Subject must meet the following criteria as indicated on the clinical laboratory tests: • Serum aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase ≤ 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) • Serum total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN • Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or an estimated glomerular filtration rate of > 50 mL / min as calculated by the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation.

Additionally, the median change in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) from baseline to week 48 favoured TAF in both studies (p < 0.01).

Finally, I think protein increases glomerular filtration rate, but there isn't any evidence that excessive protein actually harms healthy kidneys.

Rats fed on alternate days showed preserved kidney function as demonstrated by preserved glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow, compared to rats fed ad libitum (56).

Juniper: Juniper has long been used to support the Kidneys and urinary tract - and has been reported to enhance glomerular filtration as well as decrease prostatitis.

Other benefits of optimum fluid intake include weight loss, better bowel function, and better glomerular filtration rate (GFR) which can equate to better kidney function.

Mahler said that while others have developed microfluidic models of the proximal tubule before, this is the first to offer glomerular filtration.

In both sexes renal impairment, low glomerular filtration rate, smoking, and peripheral arterial occlusive disease, measured by ankle brachial index, were associated with increased atherothrombotic risk in T2DM, whereas for ischemic heart disease, a significant relation was found in men, with a trend shown in women.

These cell culture efforts, however, so far have failed to produce populations of mature podocytes pure enough as to be useful for modeling glomerular filtration.

The kidneys of pediatric patients have not yet reached the adult glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which decreases their ability to concentrate urine.3 Decreased GFR calls for a higher fluid rate during anesthesia, but pediatric patients may also have limited renal clearance and, as mentioned, preexisting hypoalbuminemia.

Levetiracetam is excreted 65 - 75 % unchanged in the urine through glomerular filtration and active tubular secretion.

However, kidney function — measured by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)-- was about the same as the standard group at the end of the trial, yielding no clinical benefit.

Assessment of Glomerular Filtration Rate Measurement with Plasma Sampling: A Technical Review

During pregnancy, iodine requirements increase by 50 percent, due to an increased glomerular filtration rate and the needs of the fetus.

Oral intake of Cedar Berry may help to treat prostate disorders by enhancing glomerular filtration, causing the excretion of more amounts of potassium, sodium, and chlorine, especially helpful for an enlarged prostate.

They found that 31.6 percent of these veterans had evidence of CKD prior to the diabetes diagnosis, based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urine - albumin - creatine ratios, two common measures of kidney function.

This includes the glomerular filtration rate of the kidneys, various medical values for blood work and testing, the names of the muscles in the body...

Meanwhile, over time, researchers determined whether a participant developed kidney disease by determining kidney function via blood tests of glomerular filtration rate, learning about a kidney disease - related hospitalization or death, or finding out about end - stage kidney disease resulting in dialysis or transplant.

In the past, doctors have relied mostly on two biomarkers — urinary albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR) and estimated glomerular filtration rate — to identify those at higher risk of kidney failure and also to select patients for clinical trials.

However, this finding requires cautious interpretation because studies assessing glomerular filtration rate more directly have shown a hemodynamically mediated acute increase in glomerular filtration rate followed by a more rapid rate of decline with chronic therapy using amlodipine and other CCBs.38 - 40

The creatinine clearance is further used to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), or the rate of blood flow through the kidneys, which can vary depending on age, sex and size.

At 30 ml / min, his glomerular filtration rate, or GFR — a measure of kidney function — suggested he already had moderate to severe damage.

A measurement that gives much more information is the estimated glomerular filtration rate.

The bodybuilders» estimated glomerular filtration rate at the beginning was 22 - 34 millilitres per minute.

Exclusion criteria were congestive heart failure with a cardiac ejection fraction of < 30 %, malignancies, chronic kidney disease with a glomerular filtration rate of < 30 ml / min, severe cardiac arrhythmias, and inflammation (C - reactive protein > 5 mg / l).

(1) Examples would include destruction (any cause) of the glomerular filtration system leading to renal failure; unrepaired traumatic disruption of the urinary tract; or a severe psychiatric disorder focused on genito - urinary matters.

Glomerular filtration rate is decreased, as is rate of tubular secretion, reaching adult level at 8 weeks of age.

Autoregulation of renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate in neonatal puppies appear to be relatively inefficient in response to rapid changes in systemic arterial blood pressure.7 In adult dogs, the renin — angiotensin system is an important regulatory mechanism; however, in neonates, renal blood flow is directly correlated with arterial pressure and does not seem to be altered by inhibition of angiotensin until approximately 6 weeks of age.

The question has arisen about the potential for such high protein diets to affect renal function when fed continuously, as high protein diets are reported to induce renal hypertrophy, and increase renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate.

As long as the thyroid hormones are elevated, the kidneys will have an increased glomerular filtration rate (GFR), so on blood work or urinalysis, they will appear to be functioning normally.

Hyperthyroidism increases renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) that may mask concurrent chronic renal disease.