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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2001) 16: 1720-1721
© 2001 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

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Homocysteine and nephrotic syndrome

Gursharan Dogra1, Ashley B. Irish2 and Gerald F. Watts1

1 Department of Medicine and Western Australian Heart Research Institute, University of Western Australia 2 Department of Nephrology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia

Sir,

We read with interest that Arnadottir et al. [1] demonstrated significantly lower total plasma homocysteine levels in nephrotic patients compared with non-nephrotic patients matched for renal function. A positive correlation between serum creatinine, glomerular filtration rate, and homocysteine was seen and this has been previously documented [2,3]. The study also demonstrated that total plasma homocysteine was negatively correlated with serum albumin and positively correlated with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Margret Arnadottir1, Björn Hultberg2 and Anna-Lena Berg3

1 Department of Medicine, Landspitali University Hospital Hringbraut, Reykjavik, Iceland 2 Department of Clinical Chemistry 3 Department of Nephrology, University Hospital in Lund, Lund, Sweden


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