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Chronic kidney disease
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Nephrology
Do you recommend delaying spot urine protein quantification testing until after nephrostomy tube removal in a patient with obstructive uropathy?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Yes, if the tubes are coming out. Would not want to make treatment decisions under these circumstances. Not an emergency usually.
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Answer from: at Academic Institution
Not necessarily. I don't think it would affect it much.
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