NOUN
- abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body
- production of an abnormally small amount of urine
How To Use oliguria In A Sentence
- It is usually initiated when systolic blood pressure falls below 90 and there is evidence of hypoperfusion (eg, mental status changes, oliguria, poor tissue perfusion).
- Renal function also progressively deteriorates during high dose therapy, leading to both oliguria and electrolytes disturbances.
- Patients with severe oliguria or anuria (output of less than 100 mL of urine per day) are likely to have postrenal acute renal failure.
- Renal effects include oliguria or anuria (little or no urine excretion) due to tubular necrosis, often preceded by the formerly mentioned effects Mercury and Iron salts. Chapter 13
- · Associated icterus and renal signs (oliguria ...) indicates yellow fever, leptospirosis ... Chapter 6
- However, these measures should not be employed if oliguria is established despite initial generous hydration with normal saline.
- More subtle symptoms include mild digestive disturbances, periodic oliguria or edema, and mild intermittent dyspnea.
- In patients whose renal function may depend on the activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (e.g., patients with severe congestive heart failure), treatment with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors has been associated with oliguria and/or progressive azotemia and (rarely) with acute renal failure and/or death. Undefined
- In non-fatal cases recovery was complete and occurred within a further 3 h. There were no gastrointestinal or renal symptoms such as diarrhoea, anuria, oliguria or haematuria during the entire period of observation.
- She developed abdominal distension, oliguria, acidosis, elevated blood urea nitrogen and creatinine.
