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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: lruffner on April 26, 2008, 12:13:05 PM

Title: Calling all FSGS-ers...lol T or F Lower protein spill = lower creatinine?
Post by: lruffner on April 26, 2008, 12:13:05 PM

My nephs told me that as your protein spillage decreases, your creat/ kidney function improves. Well, that is not my case at all. Anyone have any input on the topic?






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Title: Re: Calling all FSGS-ers...lol T or F Lower protein spill = lower creatinine?
Post by: stauffenberg on April 27, 2008, 08:38:07 AM

These phenomena -- spilling protein in the urine and having renal problems -- are really just two sides of the same coin, not independent factors related as cause and effect or effect and cause.  Intact nephrons do not allow protein to escape the kidney into the urine, and if they do, they are damaged, so protein in the urine is one measure of kidney disease.  Another is the quantity of metabolic by-products arising from breaking down proteins which the kidneys are unable to cleanse from the body, and that is measured by the level of creatinine that backs up in the blood because the kidneys can no longer remove it.

Title: Re: Calling all FSGS-ers...lol T or F Lower protein spill = lower creatinine?
Post by: lruffner on April 27, 2008, 10:36:01 AM

Thanks for the input stauffenberg. They don't go into to much detail with me, they just sort of blurt out a few words here and there, without explaining what it all means. Isn't that a shocker?  :sarcasm;