Can plasma cystatin C level be used to estimate residual renal function in patients on dialysis?
Olof Heimbürger
Correspondence Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Clinical, Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, K56, S-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
Email olof.heimburger@ki.se
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RRF is an important predictor of outcome in patients on dialysis.1 The standard method of estimating RRF in these patients is to take the average of urea and creatinine clearances from a 24 h urine collection, but as this procedure is cumbersome and not always possible, alternative methods have been sought.
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