Simple assessment of patient's stage of chronic kidney disease using eGFR-MDRD nomograms.

Abstract

European as well as US guidelines recommend the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula to determine the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and, based on this, the staging of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The diagnosis of CKD is only established when a reduced eGFR has been observed for 3 months or longer.

Because the MDRD equation is very complex, the calculation of eGFR is not possible without help from calculators or computers. Therefore, we converted this equation into simple, easy to use colour nomograms.

These were drawn separately for men and women, on one hand, and for whites and blacks, on the other.

These nomograms allow the determination of a patient's eGFR in a quick and easy way and at any location.

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Subjects

• African Continental Ancestry Group
• Algorithms
• European Continental Ancestry Group
• Female
• Glomerular Filtration Rate
• Humans
• Male
• Nomograms
• Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
• Sex Factors

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Authors

• Sunny Eloot
• Bruno Van Vlem
• Johan De Meester

Publication date

2012-01-10

Journal

Journal topics

• Kidney Diseases
• Urology

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Department of Nephrology, Dialysis Unit 1P8, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. sunny.eloot [at] ugent.be

Release reference

Int Urol Nephrol. 2012 Feb;44(1):207-12

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