A worldwide movement is underway to oblige laboratories to provide an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) whenever serum creatinine concentration is measured at the request of a physician. We ...

Despite uncertainty in the KDIGO guidelines, new research has shown that they can accurately identify acute kidney injury in critically ill patients who have a high risk of mortality. Future ...

Only a small fraction of these individuals will have some other manifestation of kidney injury (e.g. proteinuria). A majority of any population will, simply as a result of aging, have eGFR values of ...