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azotemia
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azotemia [‚az·ə′tem·ē·ə]
(medicine)
The presence of excessive amounts of nitrogenous compounds in the blood.
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These values include a significant drop in the hemoglobin level attributable to active bleeding, prerenal azotemia due to renal hypoperfusion during the early stages of decreased cardiac output (Russo et al.
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19) Although diuretics are effective treatment, they may exacerbate prerenal azotemia.
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Renal injury that appears after acute high-dose lead exposure may include reversible deficits in proximal tubular reabsorption and prerenal azotemia induced by renal vasoconstriction and/or volume depletion (Coyle et al.
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