Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Directly measuring kidney function is time-consuming, expensive and impractical. Thus different formulas have been developed for estimating the glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) which provides a surrogate marker of clearance. The MDRD equation is commonly used to provide eGFR to clinicians. However, most product information suggests prescribing based on the estimated creatinine clearance (eCrCL) based on the Cockcroft–Gault (CG) formula. different equations ut...