Background: The effectiveness of antibiotics for the treatment of severe bacterial infections in
newborns in resource-limited settings has been determined by empirical evidence …

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is insidious and most cases are diagnosed through
opportunistic serum creatinine (SCr) testing before symptoms develop. However, efforts to …

目的分析血清胱抑素C (Scys C) 与肺源性心脏病的相关性. 方法分析急性发作期58 例, 缓解期50
例, 健康者100 例的血清Scys C 与Scr 水平及不同预后急性加重期患者的指标变化. 结果3 …

Štúdie porovnávajúce dve metódy na stanovenie rovnakej laboratórnej veličiny (method
comparison studies) sa bežne vykonávajú na rôznych úrovniach laboratórnej práce, od …

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is an excellent marker of kidney function but due to inherent
limitations of cost and complex procedure, it is not possible to measure GFR feasibly in …

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is usually determined by estimation of iothalamate (IOT)
clearance. We have developed and validated an accurate and robust method for the …

Surgical preadmission clinics (PACs) are an established service in many hospitals. 1-7 The
main objective of PACs is to provide surgical and anaesthetic assessments of patients prior …

We read with interest the article by Hijazi et al1 about the clinical outcomes of dabigatran
compared with warfarin for atrial fibrillation in relation to estimates of renal function. The …

[ES] Diversos estudios demuestran la influencia de la hipoalbuminemia en la morbi-
mortalidad y duración de la estancia hospitalaria, siendo un parámetro considerado por …

Despite improvements in assay performance following the introduction of isotope dilution
mass spectrometry (IDMS)-traceable creatinine methods, including enzymatic methods …