An Unusual Nodular Glomerular Lesion
A 67-year-old white male with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 3a (baseline Cr 1.5mg/dl) and type 2 diabetes mellitus for over 20 years, as well as hypertension and obesity presented for evaluation of left heel ulcerative wound that had been…
Uromodulin may be a novelpredictive serum biomarker for chronic kidney disease (CKD),researchers reported online in theJournal of Hypertension.
In a study of 529 patients, AndreasLeiherer, MD, of the Vorarlberg Institutefor Vascular Investigation and Treatment,Feldkirch, Austria, and colleaguesfound that serum uromodulin concentrationwas inversely associated with thedevelopment of CKD, and it significantlyimproved the performance of a predictionmodel for CKD.
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