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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(7):1988; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl081
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Case Report

Massive increase in proteinuria after the introduction of midodrine in an elderly patient—a case report

Charles J. Diskin, Thomas J. Stokes, Linda M. Dansby, Lautrec Radcliff and Thomas B. Carter

HNDT, Auburn University, Opelika, AL 36801, USA

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Charles J. Diskin, MD, HNDT, Auburn University, BLDG 21, 121 N, 20th street, Opelika, AL 36801, USA. Email: hndt.S12@bellsouth.uck

Keywords: proteinuria; glomerular hemodynamics; glomerular function; drug therapy; adverse reactions

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Midodrine is an alpha adrenergic agonist advocated for the treatment of orthostatic hypotension [1] including patients with diabetes [2] and renal failure [3], but as it also increases intraglomerular pressures one might expect an increase in proteinuria. We . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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