Kidney Failure and the Gut: P-cresol and the Dangers from Within.
From: Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany. mketteler@ukaachen.de
Kidney international
- Publish Date: Mar 2006
- ISSN: 0085-2538
- Volume: 69
- Issue: 6
- Pages: 952-3
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Ketteler M, et al. Kidney Failure and the Gut: P-cresol and the Dangers from Within.. Kidney Int. Mar 2006;69:952-3
Abstract
Previously, uremic toxins were sometimes regarded as a large, mysterious, but also anonymous group of factors potentially contributing to morbidity and mortality in end-stage renal disease. By identifying the protein-bound solute p-cresol as a risk factor for mortality in dialysis patients, Bammens and colleagues for the first time present evidence of a clinically relevant uremic toxin in relation to clinical outcome.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Colon, Cresols, Disease Progression, Humans, Kidney Failure, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Predictive Value of Tests, Renal Dialysis, Risk Factors, Toxins, Biological
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