azotemia

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Azotemia - excess blood levels of certain products of nitrogen metabolism:. Urea, uric acid, creatine, creatinine, etc. Azotemia often caused by failure of renal excretory function, but may also depend on the extrarenal factors - increased protein breakdown (for burns), difficulty of urination ( with prostate cancer, compression of the ureter). Treatment is directed at the underlying disease. Symptomatic treatment includes a restriction in the diet of foods containing protein, such as meat, appointment of anabolic hormones (to reduce protein breakdown), and measures aimed at increasing urine output, including the use of diuretics. In a hospital hemodialysis if necessary.

See. Also Kidney failure .