Monitoring renal function.
Acute renal failure is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. The prompt, effective management of acute oliguria, frequently the presenting sign of renal deterioration, remains difficult because of the lack of suitable monitors. No monitor presently in common use is sufficiently specific, sensitive, or rapidly available to satisfy clinical needs.
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Department of Anesthesia, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Zaloga
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D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009846:Oliguria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy