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Query: UMLS:C0028961 (oliguria)
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A schizophrenic woman, aged 45, was admitted complaining of high fever, oliguria, blackish urine, muscle swelling and pain. She had been treated for the past 3 years with haloperidol (8 mg), levomepromazine (150 mg), chlorpromazine (75 mg), lithium carbonate (600 mg), bromocriptine mesilate (7.5 mg), etizolam (1 mg), and flunitrazepam (2 mg), Physical examination revealed her to be an obese and uncommunicatable woman with swelling and weakness of the extremities and abdominal distension without borborygmus. Urine was dark brown and (+) for protein and occult blood. Blood chemistry analysis revealed BUN 71 mg/dl, creatinine 6.8 mg/dl, CPK 143,850 IU and myoglobin 3,980 ng/ml. PRA on the 11th hospital day was 96 ng/ml/hour. This patient fulfilled the Levenson's diagnostic criteria for manifestations of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS). High PRA did not decrease after cessation of the diuretics. After treatment with dantrolene sodium and 10 treatments with hemodialysis, azotemia disappeared with the start of diuresis. The PRA also decreased to the normal level. Characteristic acceleration of the central sympathetic stimuli in NMS seemed to have induced hyperreninemia, which together with rhabdomyolysis, might have contributed to the development of acute renal failure.
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PMID:[A case of acute renal failure in neuroleptic malignant syndrome associated with rhabdomyolysis--possible contributing role of hyperreninemia]. 781 49

Many centers determined a significant correlation between post-transplant anti-HLA antibodies production and clinical outcome. In order to confirm this correlation and ascertain the sequential appearance of anti-HLA antibodies, we compared the ELISA (ELISA-PRA) and the anti-human globulin enhanced complement-dependent lymphocytotoxicity panel-reactive antibodies test (AHG-PRA) with the occurrence of acute rejection episodes. Thirty patients who underwent kidney transplantation between December 1998 and October 1999 were assayed. One pre-transplant and 10 post-transplant serum samples were tested from each recipient except from one of them who lost his graft on the 1 week post-transplant. The diagnosis of acute rejection episode was based on classical criteria (fever, graft swelling and tenderness, oliguria, weight gain) and a rapid rise in serum creatinine levels, confirmed by an allograft biopsy graded by the Banff working classification. The 322 pre- and post-transplant serum specimens were tested by AHG-PRA methodology and 298 of them by the ELISA-PRA. The agreement coefficient (kappa) for both methodologies was 0.63. There were 27 acute rejection episodes in 19 patients. AHG-PRA results were significantly correlated (Hazard ratio=10.06; P=0.006) with this occurrence. These data were not confirmed with the ELISA-PRA procedure. Our results suggest that a routine post-transplant AHG-PRA test offers an early risk assessment of acute rejection episodes and may be a useful method for monitoring the kidney transplant evolution.
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PMID:Analysis of AHG-PRA and ELISA-PRA in kidney transplant patients with acute rejection episodes. 1279 1