The use of outpatient laboratory databases to identify people with a low GFR may be part of an effective strategy to increase their use of treatments to prevent kidney failure. All renal function data from 17 independent outpatient laboratories in Eastern Ontario were combined to determine the proportion of adults with at least one serum creatinine measurement during a 1-yr period. The detectio...

The Schwartz formula was devised in the mid-1970s to estimate GFR in children. Recent data suggest that this formula currently overestimates GFR as measured by plasma disappearance of iohexol, likely a result of a change in methods used to measure creatinine. Here, we developed equations to estimate GFR using data from the baseline visits of 349 children (aged 1 to 16 yr) in the Chronic Kidney ...

Objective. This study was set to assess the effect of renal dysfunction on outcome of stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT). Methods. This multicenter research involved 403 patients from January 2009 to March 2015. Patients were divided into two groups: (1) control group with GFR ≥ 45 mL/min/1.73 m2 and (2) low GFR group with GFR < 45 mL/min/1.73 m2. Outcome measurements w...

UNLABELLED Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) can accurately be determined using (51)Cr-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) plasma clearance counting but is time-consuming and requires technical skills and equipment not always available in imaging departments. (68)Ga-EDTA can be readily available using an onsite generator, and PET/CT enables both imaging of renal function and accurate camera-b...

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR), renal plasma flow (RPF), and electrolyte excretion were studied in 17 patients subjected to salt depletion and loading. Salt depletion led to maximal renal salt conservation with the average GFR and RPF slightly decreased. Salt loading produced increased excretion of sodium and chloride with the average GFR and RPF slightly increased. Since the decreased electr...

A group G has a Frobenius graphical representation (GFR) if there is simple graph ? whose full automorphism isomorphic to acting on the vertices as group. In particular, any with GFR and Cayley graph. By very recent results of Spiga, exists function f such that finite complement H | &gt; (| |) then admits GFR. This paper provides an infinite family graphs admit GFRs despite not meeting Spiga’s ...

BACKGROUND In this study (the first of two related papers), we report whether the relationship between the demographic and anthropometric variables (DA, i.e. age, gender, height and weight) employed in current creatinin (Cr)-based glomerular filtration rate (GFR) estimation equations and actual GFR is mediated by muscle mass. METHODS We studied 77 patients (mean age +/- SD, 65.1 +/- 11.9 year...

OBJECTIVE Hyperglycemia increases glomerular filtration rate (GFR), but the influence of HbA(1c) (A1C) on GFR and GFR's prediction by recommended equations remains to be determined. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In 193 diabetic patients, we searched for an association between A1C and isotopically measured GFR (51Cr-EDTA) and their predictions by the Cockcroft and Gault formula (CG) and the modi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Whereas current GFR estimating equations approximate direct GFR measurement at a single time point, formulas that capitalize on changes in easily measured biologic parameters could improve the accuracy and precision of GFR estimation. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS In the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children Cohort (aged 1 to 16 yr), we measured GFR by p...