Changes in serum and urine calcium levels in patients with chronic renal failure
- Author:
Tuan Anh Bui
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
chronic renal failure
- MeSH:
Kidney Failure, Chronic;
calcium
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2000;384(7):28-29
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
270 patients with chronic renal failure and 40 healthy controls were studied. The results suggested that the serum calcium concentration decreased in the first stage, normalized in stages I and II and increased at the end-stage of chronic renal failure. Urine calcium level decreased through 4 stages in the patients with chronic glomerulonephritis-related renal failure. In the patients with urinary calculus-related chronic renal failure, urine calcium concentration decreased during stages I and II but normalized during stages III and IV. Urine calcium level of the patients with urinary calculus-related chronic renal failure was higher than that of those with chronic-glomerulonephritis-related renal failure who were in the same stage of renal failure.
