Serum Creatinine: Not so Simple!

Nephron

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 302-308

  Delanaye, Pierre ^a   Cavalier, Etienne ^b   Pottel, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Glomerular filtration rate; Jaffe; Serum creatinine

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANALYTICAL VARIATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL BIAS; TRACEABILITY; BLOOD; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST;

BIOMARKERS; CREATININE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 85018266355     PISSN: 16608151     EISSN: 22353186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000469669     Document Type: Review

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