Plasma pseudouridine levels reflect body size in children on hemodialysis.
Frank J O'BrienTammy L SirichAbigail TaussigEnrica FungLakshmi L GanesanNatalie S PlummerPaul BrakemanScott M SutherlandTimothy W MeyerPublished in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2019)
Prescribing dialysis based on urea kinetics may leave uremic solutes at higher levels in small children. Measurement of a solute produced proportional to BSA may provide a better index of dialysis adequacy than measurement of urea.