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Urea Percentile Curves in Pre-dialysis Children with Chronic Kidney Disease: Efficacy & Limitations.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Chronic Kidney Disease

Abstract

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) carries a lot of co-morbidities. Urea rise may be related to decline in glomerular filtration rate, under nutrition or hyper catabolic state. According to urea percentile curves (UPC), patients with a given glomerular filtration rate show wide range of urea levels.  Correlation between urea percentiles and CKD patients' co-morbidities was suggested in many studies since Montini 2003. 
Aim of the study: to evaluate the value of UPCs as a simple tool in monitoring metabolic status and progress of CKD comorbidities.
Methods: Retrospective revision of patients' files for their urea levels and GFR at the time of diagnosis and long period after (follow-up). Accordingly, each patient was plotted on UPC graph to determine his urea percentile (UP) at each setting. Patients were classified according to their urea percentile as low, moderate and high UP groups, and classified according to urea percentile progress pattern as ascending, descending and stable groups. Correlations between their co-morbidities and their urea percentiles were statistically analysed.
Results: showed correlation between morbidity markers changes in relation to progress course of UP with significant differences in the values of phosphorus rise, bicarbonate changes and frequency of hyperphosphatemia between the 3 groups of urea percentile progress pattern.
Conclusion: Follow up pattern of urea percentile in these children is a simple and helpful tool in monitoring their co-morbidities.

DOI

10.21608/geget.2021.216779

Keywords

Chronic Kidney Disease, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Serum urea concentration, Urea percentiles curves

Authors

First Name

Bahia

Last Name

Moustafa

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H

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology & Transplantation Unit, Cairo University, Egypt.

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moustafa_afpna@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000_0003_1343_1013

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Habib

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Affiliation

El Galaa Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.

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hebafathy600@gmail.com

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First Name

Shaimaa

Last Name

Sayed

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Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology & Transplantation Unit, Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

shaimaasayed@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-9009-165X

Volume

16

Article Issue

2

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30593

Issue Date

2021-12-01

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2021-12-17

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

63

Page End

75

Print ISSN

1687-613X

Online ISSN

2636-3666

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675

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GEGET

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22 Jan 2023