"Blood Urea Nitrogen" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The urea concentration of the blood stated in terms of nitrogen content. Serum (plasma) urea nitrogen is approximately 12% higher than blood urea nitrogen concentration because of the greater protein content of red blood cells. Increases in blood or serum urea nitrogen are referred to as azotemia and may have prerenal, renal, or postrenal causes. (From Saunders Dictionary & Encyclopedia of Laboratory Medicine and Technology, 1984)
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D001806
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.124.100.115 E01.370.390.400.100 E05.200.124.100.115
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Normothermic versus hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass in low-risk paediatric heart surgery: a randomised controlled trial. Heart. 2019 03; 105(6):455-464.
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Circulating levels of IGF-I in patients with chronic uremia on conservative dietary treatment. Ren Fail. 1998 Mar; 20(2):357-60.