Determination of the glomerular filtration rate in patients with type 2 diabetes: An assessment of the agreement between 51Cr-EDTA plasma clearance and 99mTc-DTPA plasma clearance, 99mTc-DTPA renography and plasma creatinine prediction equation

Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in China: Is the European Kidney Function Consortium (EKFC) Equation the Solution?

“…This method can propose an accurate "split renal function," expressed in a relative way (left and right kidney working for 52% and 48% of the total function, as an example) [28]. The problem is that the absolute GFR value given by this method is not accurate [29][30][31]. Other authors, also from China, have even shown that the results given by the DTPA scan method was less accurate than the results given by estimating equations [29].…”