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 ...

Kidney function evaluation is crucial to the practice of medicine 1. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is commonly accepted as the best measure of renal function 2. Therefore, eGFR is insufficient in ...

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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 73-year-old female. A recent blood test returned an eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate) of 59. My physician’s nurse told me that the test was normal. When I asked her ...

Tsuda et al. [1] suggest that estimates of glomerular filtration rates (GFR) in renal assessments are compromised when allometric adjustments are made, such as corrections for surface area. Instead, ...