Chronic kidney diseases affect more than 10% of the world’s population, and most cases arise from disorders of the kidney’s filtration barrier, which is located within a million microvascular units ...

Glomerulus, the fundamental filtering unit of the kidney, is an intricate network of capillaries — small blood vessels that regulate the movement of ions, water, and metabolites while maintaining ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video, Nour Abdallah, MD, discusses an abstract from American Urological Association Annual Meeting on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older adults may have hyperfiltration with normal glomerular filtration rate calculation. GFR calculation may be ...

A team has devised a more accurate way of measuring an indicator of kidney function known as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by taking aging into account. Annual health checkups regularly include ...

The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a blood test to assess kidney function. The formula for calculating eGFR takes the patient’s body size, age, and sex into account to predict how well ...