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Two elderly patients with normal creatinine and elevated cystatin C – a case report

BACKGROUND: Serum creatinine concentration (Scr) and creatinine based GFR estimating equations (eGFR(cr)) are commonly used as an estimate of GFR. However, serum creatinine concentration is also influenced by non-GFR determinants. This case report presents two elderly patients with normal Scr but el...

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Autores principales: Loesment-Wendelmuth, Amina, Schaeffner, Elke, Ebert, Natalie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28292271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0508-7