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 ...

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. We present a retrospective study performed on a group of 258 patients with chronic kidney disease treated between January 2008 and December 2009 in the Department of Nephrology of ...

We have read with great interest the recently published article titled, ‘‘The relationship between hyperuricemia and the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with relatively normal serum creatinine’’, by Yong Liu et al. (1). In that wellpresented paper, the authors investigated the value of hyperuricemia in predicting the risk of contrast-ind...

Baseline urinary creatinine excretion (UCE) is associated with ICU outcome, but its time course not known. We determined changes in UCE, plasma creatinine, measured clearance (mCC) and estimated glomerular filtration (eGFR) patients an ICU-stay ?30d without acute kidney injury stage 3. The Cockcroft-Gault, MDRD (modification of diet renal disease) CKD-EPI (chronic disease epidemiology collabora...