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Assessment of Renal Function

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UA is the oldest method of diagnostic urine testing, first used more than 6,000 years ago [20]. Often neglected by the clinicians and poorly performed by laboratories, it is an inexpensive, readily available, and easy to interpret test with or without automated analyzers. It is an excellent indicator of a variety of renal functions, and some people consider it as a medical “poor man’s” biopsy of the kidney.

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  1. Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, William R Willard Medical Science Building, 800 Rose Street, Lexington, KY, 40536-0298, USA

    Aftab S. Chishti MD, FAAP, CCST

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    Aftab S. Chishti

  2. Urogenital Center, Division of Pediatric Urology, Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Shumyle Alam

  3. Division of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky Children's Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    Stefan G. Kiessling

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Chishti, A.S. (2014). Assessment of Renal Function. In: Chishti, A., Alam, S., Kiessling, S. (eds) Kidney and Urinary Tract Diseases in the Newborn. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39988-6_5

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