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Creatinine Defined

A substance found the blood stream, that is filtered out of the body
by the kidneys. Creatinine blood levels increase with kidney failure,
but decrease with successful transplantation. Blood creatinine
levels help determine how well the kidney is working.

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Surgical Renal Ischemia: A Contemporary Overview

Published July 19, 2008, 1:10 am, Medical News Today

UroToday.com - The topic of warm ischemic kidney injury has received renewed attention given the increased use of partial nephrectomy (PN) for renal cell carcinoma. Contemporary data in the PN literature support that warm ischemia time of 30 minutes or less is associated with minimal kidney injury.

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Iodinated contrast danger examined

Published July 17, 2008, 7:50 pm, UPI

NEW YORK, July 17 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say intravenous contrast material used for some X-rays may not be as damaging to kidneys as previously recorded.

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Kidney Damage Caused By Iodinated Contrast Material Thought To Be Overestimated

Published July 17, 2008, 3:07 am, Medical News Today

The use of iodinated contrast material may be less damaging to the kidneys than previously recorded, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY. "We reviewed patient records to determine the frequency and magnitude of serum creatinine changes in patients who had not received iodinated contrast material.

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Published Study Demonstrates Lower Serum Creatinine Levels after Contrast Media Administration with Iodixanol Than ...

Published July 16, 2008, 3:13 pm, wallstreet:online AG

GE Healthcare´s iodixanol, an isosmolar contrast medium, shows lower incidence of elevated serum

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Avastin Cancer Drug Linked To Anemia In Combo Trials Doctors Warned

Published July 16, 2008, 3:05 pm, Medical News Today

On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted on its website, a copy of a letter from Genentech Inc, the makers of cancer drug Avastin, to healthcare providers that warns them about a type anemia seen in clinical trial patients treated with Avastin in combination with Pfizer Inc's Sutent (sunitinib malate).

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Published Study Demonstrates Lower Serum Creatinine Levels after Contrast Media Administration with Iodixanol Than ...

Published July 16, 2008, 2:59 pm, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

PRINCETON, N.J.----GE Healthcare's iodixanol, an isosmolar contrast medium, shows lower incidence of elevated serum creatinine or decreased glomerular filtration rate than iopromide, concluded a study written by a team of physicians and researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina, and published in Radiology, a peer-reviewed journal for the field of radiology.

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Kidney Damage Caused by Iodinated Contrast Material Thought to be Overestimated

Published July 16, 2008, 1:22 pm, Newswise

The use of iodinated contrast material may be less damaging to the kidneys than previously recorded, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY.

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Urinary Metabolic Evaluations In Solitary And Recurrent Stone Forming Children

Published July 13, 2008, 1:06 am, Medical News Today

Dr. William DeFoor, et al., retrospectively reviewed all children who presented with urolithiasis at a single pediatric institution between 1999 and 2006. They wanted to determine which children were at greatest risk for recurrent stone formation.

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Life On Dialysis It Changes Everything They Do

Published July 12, 2008, 9:12 pm, Highlands Today

The average person is born with two functioning kidneys. Even when one goes, the other can take over the load and work for a lifetime.

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