When you go for your yearly check-up, you’ll likely have a routine blood test for creatinine. In some cases, your doctor may order a urine creatinine clearance test, as well. High blood creatinine ...

A 74-year-old woman presented with moderate ascites with diagnostic features of adenocarcinoma of the ovary. She was given 1 course of cisplatin- and paclitaxel-based chemotherapy but did not have her ...

Understanding your creatinine levels is important for monitoring kidney function. When you go for your yearly check-up, you’ll likely have a routine blood test for creatinine. In some cases, your ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a well-established, independent predictor of future cardiovascular complications, 8 and therefore its presence strongly influences the global risk profile. Owing ...

Serum 1,25-dihydroxyvtamin D3 and osteocalcin are significantly correlated with the calcium/creatinine clearance ratio in adults with primary hyperparathyroidism revealing that the diagnostic value of ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(4):274-279. The objectives of this study were to develop and test an adjustment factor (AF) for estimating aminoglycoside clearance (CL amino) from the Cockcroft–Gault ...

In response to my recent column on creatine, a reader inquired about the difference between creatine versus creatinine. Are they related, and if so, how? Good question, and a topic that often surfaces ...