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One of the early products of the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) study has been an updated equation for estimating GFR in children on the basis of demographic and laboratory parameters.

In patients already diagnosed with CKD, eGFR (as calculated by the abbreviated Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] equation [5]) might provide a less crude description of the degree of ...

Annual health checkups regularly include urine tests that serve several purposes, including checking for symptoms of kidney ...

In summary, the study introduced a more precise way to measure kidney function in older adults by accounting for age-related ...

MediBeacon Inc. today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the MediBeacon® TGFR for the ...

assessed 180 kidney transplant donor candidates to define a new formula for determining the threshold value for hyperfiltration based on age and GFR values. Among other findings, the conventional ...