Estimation of glomerular filtration rate
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Thomas Gerhardt; Uwe Pöge; Birgit Stoffel-Wagner; Manuela Ahrendt; Martin Wolff;
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Early detection of renal dysfunction in patients after orthotopic liver transplantation is important. Creatinine-based equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) were found to be less accurate in liver transplant recipients than in their original populations. Since cystatin C (CysC) is i