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Donors at risk: hypertension
• Potential living kidney donors should have their blood pressure (BP) measured on at least three occasions with a level less than 140/90 mmHg on all three occasions. • If one or more office BP measurements are elevated, white-coat hypertension may be excluded by: – 12 home BP measurements with an average less than 135/85 mmHg or – 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) with an avera...
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• Potential living donors should have their urinary protein excretion measured using either a 24-hour urine collection (daily excretion) or a spot urine sample (protein/creatinine ratio). • A urine protein excretion of >300 mg/day (24 hour collection) or of >30 mg/mmol (spot urine protein/ creatinine ratio) is usually a contraindication to live donation. • Further investigations are warranted w...
متن کاملDonors at risk: obesity
• A combination of waist circumference and body mass index (BMI) is recommended for the clinical assessment of overweight and obesity. Consideration of differential risk according to ethnicity should be undertaken. • Obesity (BMI > 30 kg/m) should be considered a relative contraindication to donation. • Potential donors who are obese should be very carefully assessed for risk factors associated...
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Allergic reactions are only rarely taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis of urological disorders (Campbell, 1951; Dees and Simmons, 1951). Histologically speaking, however, allergic reactions are just as capable of occurring in the urinary tract as they are in the respiratory or digestive tracts. Thus mast cells and histamine are to be found everywhere in the normal bladder wal...
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A retrospective study of the results of dipstick testing and microscopical examination ofurine from 10 050 men undergoing health screening showed a prevalence of occult haematuria of 2-5%. Those patients with occult haematuria who were resident in the United Kingdom and registered with a general practitioner were identified and a questionnaire sent to their general practitioners asking what fur...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1320-5358,1440-1797
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2009.01219.x