Journal article
Utilizing Estimated Creatinine Excretion to Improve the Performance of Spot Urine Samples for the Determination of Proteinuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Agreement between spot and 24-hour urine protein measurements is poor in kidney transplant recipients. We investigated whether using formulae to estimate creatinine excretion rate (eCER), rather than assuming a standard creatinine excretion rate, would improve the estimation of proteinuria from spot urine samples in kidney transplant recipients.
METHODS: We measured 24 hour urine protein and albumin and spot albumin:creatinine (ACR) …
Authors
Wang MK; White C; Akbari A; Brown P; Hussain N; Hiremath S; Knoll G
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 11, No. 12,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0166547
ISSN
1932-6203