assessed 180 kidney transplant donor candidates to define a new formula for determining the threshold value for ...

The traditional alkaline picrate (Jaffé) method gives values for serum creatinine that ... leads to overestimation of the GFR by about 10–20%. 6 With regard to the gold-standard GFR method ...

Plasma cystatin C level might better reflect glomerular filtration rate (GFR) than creatinine concentration. Ma et al. have developed and tested a new equation to estimate GFR that uses cystatin C ...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects approximately 15% of U.S. adults and as many as 9 in 10 with CKD are unaware they have ...