Predicting the GFR in Patients with CRF from the Arithmetic Mean of Creatinine and Urea Clearances: A Simple Mathematical Explanation of an Assumed Coincidence

Dialysis and Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 666-674

  Schück, Otto ^a   Teplan, Vladimír ^a   Skibová, Jelena ^a   Štollová, Milena ^a  

^a Experimental Medicine   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; BICARBONATE; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLUINDOSTATIN; FUROSEMIDE; INSULIN; INULIN; STATINE DERIVATIVE; UREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INULIN CLEARANCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 18844463218     PISSN: 00902934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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