Explorations & Innovations
Chronic Kidney Disease: The Role of the Clinical Laboratory
Wednesday, August 23rd
1:00 p.m. CDT, 6:00 p.m. GMT and Thursday, August 24 2:00 a.m. Hong Kong
This web cast will be translated into
Spanish,
Portuguese,
German and
French.
Se traducirá este webcast simultáneamente en Español.
Esta conferência, via WEB, terá tradução simultânea em Português.
Der Web-Cast findet mit deutscher Simultanűbersetzung statt.
Cette conférence INTERNET sera traduite simultanément en Français
Speaker
Josef Coresh, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.S.
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, Schools of Public Health & Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Greg Miller, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology Co-Director of Clinical Chemistry and Director of Pathology Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University, and VCU Health System, Richmond, Virginia
Learning Objectives
- Review the current status of serum creatinine measurement
- Understand recommendations for reporting GFR calculated from serum creatinine
- Describe the NKDEP creatinine standardization program
- Define stages of chronic kidney disease as a function of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)
- Review data on estimating GFR from serum creatinine and Cystatin C
- Summarize the prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the United States
- Demonstrate the association between eGFR and future risk of kidney disease.
Presentations
English
View event presentation in English [pdf]
French
View event presentation in French: Part One / Part Two [pdf]
Audio Presentation in French [mp3]
German
Audio Presentation in German [mp3]
Portuguese
View event presentation in Portuguese: Part One / Part Two [pdf]
Audio Presentation in Portuguese [mp3]
Spanish
View event presentation in Spanish: Part One / Part Two [pdf]
Audio Presentation in Spanish [mp3]
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