Background: Measurement of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and monitoring of it in any patient on nephrotoxic drugs is very important. Recently, cystatin C (cys-C) has been introduced as a better marker for determining and monitoring renal function than creatinine especially in a mild decrease of GFR. This study was done to assess the change of GFR measurement based on serum Cys-C and creatini...

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...

background: all the three nitric oxide synthase (nos) isoforms are presented in the kidney. some data provided evidences that enos activity leads to restoration of renal function after injury, but activation of inos aggravates renal failure. in the present study, we investigated that whether in gentamicin-induced renal failure selective inos blockade is beneficial. materials and methods: four g...

ABSTRACT In this issue of Clinical Kidney Journal, Stehlé and colleagues demonstrate that estimation glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by use creatinine a measure, total lumbar muscle cross-sectional area, reflecting the mass an individual, is superior to GFR-estimating equations based upon demographic variables. The report et al. demonstrates one solution interference in estimate GFR. This was ...

BACKGROUND Measuring glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is an important assessment in peritoneal dialysis patients. In clinical practice, it is commonly measured by calculating the mean of the urinary clearance of urea and creatinine (GFR(UrCl)) but this process is time consuming and unreliable. We wished to compare several estimates of GFR including residual GFR estimated from cystatin C (GFR(Cy...

Renal dysfunction is a common complication for patients with heart failure, but its association with clinical outcomes has not been fully characterized. We evaluated the association of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) with heart failure survival and the effect of digoxin on heart failure outcomes across GFR strata. A secondary analysis from the Digitalis Intervention Group trial was conducted o...

BACKGROUND The aim was to evaluate the reproducibility of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measured with iohexol and its response to food in a direct and independent comparison with Cr-51-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), and examine the influence of two different whole body scaling parameters, body surface area (BSA) and extracellular fluid volume (ECV). METHODS Fasting and non-fasting...