The symptoms of many kidney diseases are not obvious. When symptoms do appear, there may have been a lot of damage done. For this reason, GFR is regarded as an important early warning marker. Doctors ...

It is increasingly recognized that galactose-deficient IgA in the glomerulus activates the alternative complement system and drives IgA nephropathy, including in the tubules and interstitium, leading ...

I recently took a call from a new practitioner. She had an 85-year-old diabetic, non-insulin-dependent female with a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 45 mL/min/1.73 m 2. The practitioner asked if ...

A study of more than 82,000 older adults receiving outpatient measurements of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) found that measuring eGFR based on creatinine and cystatin C levels ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older adults may have hyperfiltration with normal glomerular filtration rate calculation. GFR calculation may be ...

The SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin (Jardiance) reduced the risk of creatinine increases and acute kidney injury (AKI) even in those with an early dip in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), ...

MIT researchers have demonstrated that cell membrane composition directly influences EGFR activity, with elevated negatively ...

Working-age adults in Japan with new-onset atrial fibrillation had faster rates of eGFR decline vs. those without, according ...