nephrological

This test could be of clinical value in deciding which patients require urgent referral for further management and treatment in hospitals without specialist nephrological care.

On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases.

The John P. Merrill Festschrift: nephrological research papers by past and present members of the Merrill School of Nephrology.

The first official publication was made by the Bulgarian nephrologist Dr. Yoto Tanchev and his team in 1956 in the Bulgarian Journal Savremenna Medizina, a priority generally acknowledged by the international nephrological community.

The specificity of the test is sufficient to prevent emergency transfer of large numbers of CRF patients, and, if developments in assay technique were to produce an automated test, measurement of carbamylated haemoglobin would be of help in management of patients admitted with renal failure to hospitals without specialist nephrological facilities.