Affiliation:
1. Birmingham Accident Hospital, Bath Row, Birmingham B15 1NA, UK
Abstract
Thirteen trauma patients admitted to a major injuries unit were classified according to their injury severity. Urinary excretion of total protein, albumin and gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) activity were assessed over the following 6 days. All patients showed an initial glomerular and tubular proteinuria during the first 24 h which subsided by the second post-trauma day. The excretion of total protein and albumin was positively correlated with injury severity. Those patients with the severest injuries showed a marked recurrent total proteinuria around days 3 to 4 post-trauma which exhibited features of a tubular lesion. The recurrent proteinuria peak coincided with peak levels of serum c-reactive protein (CRP).
Subject
Clinical Biochemistry,General Medicine
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28 articles.
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