What is the best alternative to inulin clearance to estimate GFR in patients with decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3569-3575

  Rognant, Nicolas ^a,b   Bacchetta, Justine ^b,c   Dubourg, Laurence ^a,b   Si Ahmed, Si Nafaa ^d   Radenne, Sylvie ^e   Dumortier, Jérôme ^a,b   Hadj Aïssa, Aoumeur ^a,b  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^d HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^e CROIX ROUSSE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alcoholic liver cirrhosis; Glomerular filtration rate; Plasma creatinine

Indexed keywords

FRUCTAN; CREATININE; INULIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COCKCROFT AND GAULT FORMULA; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPENSATED ALCOHOLIC LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INULIN CLEARANCE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLIFIED MODIFIED OF DIET IN RENAL DISEASES FORMULA; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; INULIN; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79952200710     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq248     Document Type: Article

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