Plasma clearance of technetium-99m-labeled diethyltriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) was used as an indicator of baseline GFR and, after intravenous infusion of 10% mixed amino acids, stimulated GFR.
Of course, it could be argued that serum creatinine level and urine output are not the ... and detecting early declines in glomerular filtration rate is difficult. Clinical availability of more ...
Because of a reduction in muscle mass in these patients, serum creatinine may be within the normal range, even with a very low GFR. The use of blood urea nitrogen (BUN) concentration as a measure ...
Most of these trials have several confounding variables -- i.e, serum creatinine, renal blood flow, and urine volume -- that limit the applicability of the results. Although low-dose dopamine has ...