2001 NOV 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Blood urea measurements taken before the end of dialysis are not suitable for determining the efficacy of the procedure in individual patients, researchers in Brazil found.
"The double-pool urea kinetic model requires the measurement of the blood urea concentrations 30 min after haemodialysis (C[subscript]t+30) to calculate equilibrated Kt/V," explained Manuel Carlos Martins Castro and colleagues at the Sao Paulo University School of Medicine. "However, it has been suggested that urea concentrations 30 min before the end of dialysis (C[subscript]t-30) may be representative of …
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