Acute renal failure in a patient with essential thrombocythemia, diabetes mellitus, and heterozygous hemoglobin C disease.

A 31-year-old black diabetic man had acute oliguric renal failure. Retrograde pyelography showed filling defects in the ureters, presumably blood clots. Essential thrombocythemia was subsequently diagnosed.

Propranolol disposition in renal failure.

1 Previous studies of propranolol disposition in renal failure have been conflicting. 2 Using simultaneous administration of [3H]-propranolol intravenously and unlabelled propranolol orally the principal determinants of drug distribution were calculated in normals, patients with severe renal impairment (creatinine clearance 14.5 +/- 2.

Home dialysis program of the Nashville VA Hospital.

Since 1965, 330 patients have received chronic dialysis treatment at the Nashville VA Hospital. Home hemodialysis training was established in 1968, and a unique class format has been used since 1970. Despite the national trend of fewer patients beginning home dialysis each year, more than 50 percent of our patients have chosen this form of therapy yearly since 1969.