Validation of the Virga GFR equation in a renal transplant population

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Zahran, Ahmed ^a   Hossain, Mohammad Akhtar ^b   Kora, Mahmoud Abd Elaziz ^a   Galal, Ali Zaki ^a   Shoker, Ahmed ^b,c  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cockcroft Gault glomerular filtration rate; Estimated glomerular filtration rate; Isotope glomerular filtration rate; Modified diet in renal disease isotope dilution mass spectrometry; Transplant chronic kidney disease; Virga glomerular filtration rate

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; FRUCTAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COCKCROFT GAULT GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INULIN CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODIFIED DIET IN RENAL DISEASE ISOTOPE DILUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRGA EQUATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 47949088240     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000145457     Document Type: Article

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