Optimizing a kidney stress test to evaluate renal functional reserve

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Optimizing a kidney stress test to evaluate renal functional reserve

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Sharma, Aashish , Zaragoza, Jose J. , Villa, Gianluca , Ribeiro, Leonardo C. , Lu, Renhua , Sartori, Marco , Faggiana, Elena , Cal, Massimo de , Virzi, Grazia M. , Corradi, Valentina , Brocca, Alessandra , Husain-Syed, Faeq , Brendolan, Alessandra and Ronco, Claudio

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Germany: Dustri - Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle GmbH & Co. KG

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Clinical nephrology, 2016-07, Vol.86 (7), p.18-26

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Germany: Dustri - Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle GmbH & Co. KG

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Renal function reserve (RFR) describes the capacity of the kidney to increase glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in response to physiological or pathological stimuli. The scope of our study was to evaluate the optimal level of stimulation using different doses of protein load (PL) for a standard renal stress test (RST).
18 young healthy individual...