Clinical assessment of renal function in avian species often involves the measurement of plasma uric acid and blood urea nitrogen, relatively insensitive markers of renal dysfunction and dehydration.

The patient is a live donor renal allograft recipient (underlying disease is chronic glomerulonephritis). After vascularization the kidney was well perfused, but there was no urine formation. One day ...

Studies in 'healthy' Indians have found a lower range of normal glomerular filtration rates (GFRs) than in Western populations, but it is not clear if this difference is a reflection of subclinical ...