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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 23, 278-280, Copyright © 1977 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry
SH Chen and SD Lincoln
We measured serum carnitine in groups of patients with various diseases. The concentration was frequently above normal in patients with renal insufficiency. The clinical significance of such an increase in renal insufficiency may be analogous to that of increases in urea nitrogen, creatinine, or uric acid in the serum.
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