The European Kidney Function Consortium equation for eGFR can now use cystatin C as well as serum creatinine; this combination produces the most accurate kidney function estimate, researchers say.
Laboratorians explore how use of the updated estimated glomerular filtration rate equations differs for transgender patients and how to interpret laboratory test results in transgender and nonbinary populations.
ORLANDO —Use of the 2021 Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology
Collaboration eGFR formula may lead to incorrect classification of Black
living kidney donors as having CKD, according to data presented here.
“The
final messaging for this is the new eGFR, that is a race-neutral eGFR.
One has to understand what it really means. No equation is perfect. In
trying to correct one issue, we may