End-of-life care for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients at a large academic center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium. This ...
A cross sectional study found that substantial discrepancies exist between individual estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and directly measured GFR (mGFR). Laboratory reports that provide eGFR ...
The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a blood test to assess kidney function. The formula for calculating eGFR takes the patient’s body size, age, and sex into account to predict how well ...
New evidence further confirms that use of the race coefficient when calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in Black patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) leads to systematic ...
HONG KONG—Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) may be an inaccurate measure of kidney function at discharge among patients hospitalized for acute kidney injury (AKI), a new study suggests. A ...
When assessing eGFR in bariatric surgery patients, equations that account for lean body weight appear to offer the most accuracy. As the number of patients seeking bariatric surgery increases, it is ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a mean eGFR of 60 mL/min/1.73 m² or less was linked to a higher risk for adverse outcomes.