BACKGROUND Rapid estimation of the renal function is widely used in clinical practice. METHODS The validity of rapid estimation of renal function as well as long-term changes in renal function from the Cockcroft-Gault formula for estimation of creatinine clearance or from serum creatinine measurements was evaluated against the 51Cr-EDTA plasma clearance technique in 36 type 2 diabetic patient...

AIMS To evaluate the quality of bedside estimation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in hospitalized elderly patients. METHODS We evaluated common estimators of GFR in 29 women and 32 men aged 60 and older hospitalized in a geriatric ward: creatinine clearance (CCR), the Cockcroft-Gault formula (CG), the modification of diet in renal disease formula (MDRD), Baracskay formula (BAR), and a ne...

The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of three kidney function estimating equations: classic Cockcroft-Gault (classic CG), corrected Cockcroft-Gault (corrected CG) and simplified Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD), in patients with advanced chronic renal failure. The study was made in 84 nondialyzed patients with chronic renal disease in stage 4 or 5. The glomerular filtra...

background glomerular filtration rate (gfr) is widely estimated by serum creatinine based equations such as cockcroft-gault (cg) standardized for body surface, and an abbreviated formula derived from mdrd (modification of diet in renal disease) study. however, some studies suggested that creatinine based estimation of gfr formula can be replaced by cystatin c based formula. objectives the aim o...

A study of glomerular filtration rate estimation by cockcroft-gault, mdrd and ckd-epi formula in comparison with dtpa renal scan – a comparative study among live related kidney donors in south india. a b c Original Article BACKGROUND: Renal function assessment is the most important part of donor evaluation. The Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) is considered to be optimal test for overall assess...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Although the National Kidney Disease Education Program recommends use of the modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD) formula to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), most drug-dosing recommendations and clinical practices employ the Cockcroft-Gault (CG) formula. The quality score of the original MDRD study was better than that of the original CG study, although the...

Age-adjusted reference ranges for creatinine clearance were determined in 279 women, ages 40-95 years, who were housed in a metabolic research unit and consumed a meat-free diet. Creatinine clearance, but not serum creatinine, declined with age by 0.63 mL/min per 1.73 m2 per year. Serum and urine creatinine concentrations, used to calculate clearances, were analyzed by a kinetic Jaffé procedure...

BACKGROUND Accurate evaluation of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in patients awaiting liver transplantation is important because they have a greater risk of impaired renal function. A major percentage of these patients have alcoholic cirrhosis, and the accuracy of bedside used GFR estimates have not been specifically evaluated in this group. The aim of this study was to evaluate the valid...

UNLABELLED We evaluated in elderly subjects (a) the ability of GFR formulas to discriminate chronic kidney disease (CKD), (b) the correlation between renal morphology and function, and (c) the usefulness of combined r-US and GFR formulas to detect CKD. A total of 72 patients were enrolled (mean age 80±7 years, male sex 44%, serum creatinine 0.98±0.42 mg/dL, and CKD 57%). Cockcroft-Gault showed ...