The purpose of this study was to determine the concordance between two equations used for estimating glomerular filtration rate, in order to verify the possibility to be used interchangeably in the clinical practice. The two equations are of Cockcroft & Gault (CG) (1976) formula and MDRD (modification of Diet in Renal Disease) (1999) formula, these two models allow the assessment of glomerular ...

background assessment of glomerular filtration rate (gfr) by common creatinine-based methods is potentially inaccurate in patients with cirrhosis. cirrhotic patients have several underlying conditions that contribute to falsely low serum creatinine concentrations, even in the presence of moderate to severe renal impairment. therefore creatinine-based methods usually overestimate true gfr in the...

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to Uppsala and the 16’th Affi nity Conference. Uppsala hosts northern Europe ́s oldest university, the workplace for luminaries such as Linnaeus, Celsius, and Arrhenius, and this has been the site of path-breaking developments in protein separation from the early 1920’s to the present. Well known are Profs. The Svedberg (the ultracentifuge), Arne Tiselius (e...

kidney injury (AKI) face two critical questions on reading the article by Clec’h and colleagues [1]: can it be true that renal replacement therapy (RRT) lacks effi cacy in these patients; and, if so, should current practice be changed? Regrettably, the authors provided no compelling hypothesis for why RRT did not reduce in-hospital mortality. Th e most critical disadvantage of propensity score ...

conclusions functional renal impairment in diseases caused by hcv was more important than in diseases caused by hbv. the egfr was statistically lower in cirrhosis secondary to hcv than in hcv chronic hepatitis. results hbv chronic hepatitis, hcv chronic hepatitis, and cirrhosis secondary to these viruses were associated with a reduction of the gfr. the egfr was higher in patients with hbv chron...

conclusions our study shows a relationship between cimt and renal parameters, including egfr and albuminuria. this study confirms the importance of intensive examinations for early detection of atherosclerosis and treatment of risk factors. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was included 205 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm). we recorded clinical and biochemical data su...

background: in this study, the early effects of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (pcnl) on glomerular filtration rate (gfr) was assessed in different postoperative times and likewise, we determined the correlation of different variables with significant postoperative gfr drop  after pcnl. m aterials and methods: patient records of 486 cases that had undergone pcnl from january 2010 to october 2011 ...