Dexamethasone Modifies Cystatin C-Based Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury During Cisplatin-Based Chemotherapy

• Main Authors: Timothy J. Pianta (Author), John W. Pickering (Author), Lena Succar (Author), Melvin Chin (Author), Trent Davidson (Author), Nicholas A. Buckley (Author), Fahim Mohamed (Author), Zoltan H. Endre (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/Aims: Plasma cystatin C (pCysC) may be superior to serum creatinine (sCr) as a surrogate of GFR. However, the performance of pCysC for diagnosing acute kidney injury (AKI) after cisplatin-based chemotherapy is potentially affected by accompanying corticosteroid anti-emetic therapy and hyd...