The use of three herbal/nutritional products over a period of two months normalized blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum creatinine, and creatinine clearance in a case of early functional kidney impairment. Although previous use of intravenous EDTA resolved Raynaud's syndrome symptoms, it provided little improvement to abnormal creatinine clearance.

BACKGROUND The kidney performs numerous specialised functions in an effort to maintain constancy of the internal composition of body fluids. AIM This study was done to ascertain the feasibility of estimating creatinine clearance as an outpatient procedure over a 2 hours period instead of doing the study over a 24 hours period. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eighteen renal donors, Twelve females and S...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Few studies have focused on bone disease in patients with chronic kidney disease under conservative treatment. The objective was to evaluate bone disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. DESIGN AND SETTING Case series, at the Nephrology Division, Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto. METHODS 131 patients with creatinine clearance from 10 to 60 ml/min/1.73 m(2) ...

The urea clearance test developed by M6ller, McIntosh and Van Slyke (1) has one disadvantage, namely, that maximum and standard clearances are only comparable by refer.ence to the average normal value for each or by multiplying the standard clearance by a constant. In addition the standard clearance, involving the square root of the urine volume, is difficult to interpret. The creatinine cleara...