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Creatinine-Based Estimations of Kidney Function Are Unreliable in Obese Kidney Donors

Accurate assessment of kidney function by measurement of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is essential to the risk assessment of prospective living kidney donors. We evaluated the performance of various estimating equations for creatinine clearance (Cockcroft-Gault), GFR (Modification of Diet in Ren...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Nidhi, Porter, Anna C., Tang, Ignatius Y. S., Becker, Bryan N., Akkina, Sanjeev K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3270458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22315657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/872894