Dialysis patients may be overmedicated due to unreliable blood test
...ialysis, the iPTH assay that is now widely used by nephrologists has shifted significantly compared to the assay on... to the comparability of PTH assays is required by nephrologists and those who serve [patients] in this area."...Diagnosis and referrals for kidney disease fall well short of need, Johns Hopkins study shows
..."These health care professionals need to work with nephrologists to begin to eliminate the disagreement over how these patients should be treated and when they should be referred." ...Keep the baby, toss the bathwater: How kidneys retain proteins, discard waste
... How comparable is ferritin to the blood proteins nephrologists are concerned about? "Ferritin is actually much bigger than most blood proteins," Miner notes, "but other scientists have previously shown that, like blood proteins, ferritin is normally retained by the kidney." Miner suspects--but cannot yet pro...