Normal reference values for glomerular filtration rate: What do we really know?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2664-2672

  Delanaye, Pierre ^a   Schaeffner, Elke ^b   Ebert, Natalie ^b   Cavalier, Etienne ^a   Mariat, Christophe ^c   Krzesinski, Jean Marie ^a   Moranne, Olivier ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

glomerular filtration rate; reference values

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PROTEINURIA; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84864406584     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs265     Document Type: Review

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