Assessing suitability for renal donation: Can equations predicting glomerular filtration rate substitute for a reference method in the Indian population?

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Mahajan, Sandeep ^a   Mukhiya, Gulshan K ^a   Singh, Rajvir ^a   Tiwari, Suresh C ^a   Kalra, Vikram ^a   Guleria, Sandeep ^a   Agarwal, Sanjay K ^a   Bhowmik, Dipankar M ^a   Gupta, Sanjay ^a   Dash, Suresh C ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

99mTc Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid; Creatinine clearance; Donor evaluation; Glomerular filtration rate; Prediction equations

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORGAN DONOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY SURFACE AREA; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; INDIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 27544469243     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086683     Document Type: Article

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