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Pathogenesis of ascites and hepatorenal syndrome

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dc.creator Wilkinson, S. P.
dc.creator Moore, K. P.
dc.creator Arroyo, Vicente
dc.date 2011-07-07T12:30:35Z
dc.date 2011-07-07T12:30:35Z
dc.date 1991
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:27:15Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:27:15Z
dc.identifier 0017-5749
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/18659
dc.identifier 101628
dc.identifier 1833293
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/22140
dc.description Ascites is one of the most common complications of cirrhosis and has a one year mortality of up to 50%. For fluid to accumulate in any clinical situation the amount of sodium ingested must exceed that excreted by the kidneys and the virtual absence of sodium from the urine of ascitic patients was first documented by Farnsworth and Krakusin in 1948. Five years later Chart and Shipley showed such patients to have an excess of a sodium retaining hormone in their urine (later identified as aldosterone). Four decades after these discoveries the inter-relationship between renal function, hormonal changes and ascites formation remains controversial. At the other extreme of functional renal changes up to 85% ofpatients dying with cirrhosis have renal failure and, where there is no apparent cause other than the liver disease, is termed 'hepatorenal syndrome. In 1863 Flint noted that proteinuria was uncommon and kidney morphology often normal, but some patients showed a variety of renal parenchymal changes Hecker and Sherlock confirmed the absence of proteinuria and normal histology in many patients and reported very low urine sodium concentrations - findings of a prerenal type of uraemia
dc.format 6 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher BMJ Group
dc.relation Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.32.Suppl.S12
dc.relation Gut, 1991, vol. 32, suppl., p. s12-s17
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.32.Suppl.S12
dc.rights (c) British Medical Association, 1991
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina)
dc.subject Ascites
dc.subject Malalties del fetge
dc.subject Malalties del ronyó
dc.subject Ascites
dc.subject Liver diseases
dc.subject Kidney diseases
dc.title Pathogenesis of ascites and hepatorenal syndrome
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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