Increase in urinary kallikrein excretion following hemodialysis.

Urinary kallikrein excretion (UKE) was measured in 20 patients before and after hemodialysis (HD). When compared to the values of normal subjects (136 ± 56 μg/24 h, n = 100), UKE was decreased in all patients before HD (6.6 ± 5.8 μg/24 h, p