A team of researchers has established a new method to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR), a primary kidney function, by calculating the clearance of D-serine. A team of researchers led by the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The transplant community had been seeking an eGFR equation specific for evaluating transplant recipients. A new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified significant differences in eGFR and measured eGFR on an individual level, according to ...

A person's estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a mainstay for assessing renal function and health, can often substantially differ from that person's actual, directly measured GFR (mGFR), a ...

“There are many ways to measure GFR using either renal or plasma clearance of a variety of exogenous markers with different sampling strategies,” she said. Few comparative studies have evaluated ...

Equations underestimate the slope of renal decline over time In chronic kidney disease care, the central clinical question is ...

Dr Hilla Knobler et al set out to assess the presence of reduced GFR in diabetic patients undergoing SPECT imaging and to characterize the association between reduced GFR and subsequent cardiac events ...

Researchers from Dokkyo Medical University in Japan found that estimated glomerular filtration rate is a valuable tool in indicating preoperative renal function in gastric cancer patients, according ...

NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases A formula used to measure kidney function in children with chronic kidney disease has been revised to make it more precise, ...

A team of researchers led by the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN) and Osaka University established a new method to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR), ...