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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(Supplement 2):ii42-ii46; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl137
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

How to preserve residual renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease and on dialysis?

Raymond T. Krediet

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Correspondence and offprint requests to: R. T. Krediet, MD, PhD, Academic Medical Centre, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email: C.N.deboer{at}amc.uva.nl

A review is given on various aspects of GFR in patients with chronic kidney disease and in dialysis patients. These include the measurement of GFR, measures to preserve GFR in chronic kidney disease and dialysis, the importance of residual GFR in dialysis patients and factors that influence GFR in patients treated with haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

Keywords: glomerular filtration rate; residual GFR; haemodialysis; poritoneal dialysis; chronic kidney disease; dialysis dose


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