The clinician and estimation of glomerular filtration rate by creatinine-based formulas: Current limitations and Quo vadis

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 937-950

  Botev, Rossini ^a   Mallie, Jean Pierre ^b   Wetzels, Jack F M ^c   Couchoud, Cecile ^d   Schück, Otto ^e  

^a Nephrology Department   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d AGENCE DE LA BIOMÉDECINE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; EDETIC ACID; INULIN; IOHEXOL; IOTALAMIC ACID; IOTALAMIC ACID I 125; PENTETIC ACID;

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNICITY; GENDER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; VALIDITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY SURFACE AREA; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE;

EID: 79955567988     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.09241010     Document Type: Article

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