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Cystatin C: unsuited to use as a marker of kidney function in the intensive care unit

We read with interest the article by Villa and coworkers [1] advocating the use of cystatin C as a measure of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in critically ill patients. However, we should like to draw attention to several flaws in this study. First, Villa and coworkers compared cystatin C with cre...

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Autores principales: Wulkan, Raymond, den Hollander, Jan, Berghout, Arie
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16277744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3541