Diagnostic accuracy of the protein/creatinine ratio in urine samples to estimate 24-h proteinuria in patients with primary glomerulopathies: A longitudinal study

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2242-2246

  Antunes, Verônica Verleine Hörbe ^b   Veronese, Francisco José Veríssimo ^b   Morales, José Vanildo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

24 h proteinuria; Nephrotic proteinuria; Primary glomerulopathies; Protein creatinine ratio

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CREATININE RATIO; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; ROC CURVE; URINALYSIS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 46849102744     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm949     Document Type: Article

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