A new equation for estimating renal function using age, body weight and serum creatinine

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Virga, Giovambattista ^a,e   Gaspari, Flavio ^c   Thomaseth, Karl ^d   Cara, Marilena ^a   Mastrosimone, Stefania ^a   Rossi, Vittorio ^b  

^a Nephrology and Dialysis Unit   (Italy)

^b Provincial Hospital   (Italy)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cockcroft Gault formula; Creatinine clearance; Glomerular filtration rate; Iohexol plasma clearance; MDRD equation; Serum creatinine

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; IOHEXOL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY WEIGHT; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33846409461     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097597     Document Type: Article

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