Do you recommend delaying spot urine protein quantification testing until after nephrostomy tube removal in a patient with obstructive uropathy?
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Do you recommend delaying spot urine protein quantification testing until after nephrostomy tube removal in a patient with obstructive uropathy?
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Nephrology · Penn Medicine Cherry Hill
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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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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
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Not necessarily. I don't think it would affect it much.
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