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Laboratory Investigation of the Child with Suspected Renal Disease

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The kidney can be injured by a variety of different mechanisms. Investigating the type and assessing the degree of injury and its progression involves laboratory assessment and often tissue sampling. This chapter will discuss laboratory assessment and investigation with emphasis on the use of blood and urine samples to investigate renal function.

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  3. Department of Paediatric Intensive Care/Nephrology, University of Cape Town, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Rd, Rondebosch, 7700, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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van der Watt, G., Omar, F., Brink, A., McCulloch, M. (2014). Laboratory Investigation of the Child with Suspected Renal Disease. In: Avner, E., Harmon, W., Niaudet, P., Yoshikawa, N., Emma, F., Goldstein, S. (eds) Pediatric Nephrology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27843-3_19-1

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