Although it’s commonly recommended to test for albuminuria in people with diabetes or high blood pressure, testing is often ...

Barriers to donation may explain why living donor kidney transplantation has been declining. If direct measurements of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) cannot be obtained, the CKD-EPI and FAS ...

SEATTLE—Living kidney donors should not be considered to have chronic kidney disease (CKD) if their renal function after nephrectomy falls to a level that usually would be considered CKD, researchers ...

French researchers have developed and validated a creatinine-based, race-free equation for calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in people who have received a kidney transplant. It ...

The inclusion of race in equations to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) has become controversial. Alternative equations that can be used to achieve similar accuracy without the use of race ...

Transdermal GFR System (TGFR) is a first-in-kind product for point of care assessment of kidney function in patients with normal or impaired renal function The transdermal GFR (tGFR) methodology has ...

The kidneys are mostly organs made up of microvessels and are responsible for blood filtration to remove waste products.For ...

Patients with lupus nephritis who received hydroxychloroquine demonstrated a significantly lower risk for glomerular ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black patients categorized as non-Black in GFR estimation were waitlisted earlier, but time to kidney failure ...

Lumitrace injection, together with the MediBeacon ® TGFR Monitor and MediBeacon ® TGFR Sensor, allow assessment of kidney function by measuring the clearance rate of the fluorescent agent as it leaves ...