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Race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate equation in kidney transplant recipients: development and validation study

Race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate equation in kidney transplant recipients: development and validation study

KPCOP and the AST Education Committee invite the authors to discuss a multinational cohort developed to construct to develop a new race-free kidney recipient specific GFR equation.

  • 11:00 AM EDT
  • Virtual, as part of the AST Journal Club Series.

"Race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate equation in kidney transplant recipients: development and validation study"
(BMJ 2023;381:e073654)

In this article:
[The authors] constructed a multinational cohort of more than 15 000 kidney transplant recipients with 50 000 GFR measurements from 17 transplant cohorts in seven countries to develop a new race-free kidney recipient specific GFR equation and compared its performances with those of the three current main GFR equations.

Speakers:
- Marc Raynaud, PhD • Université de Paris Cité, INSERM, PARCC, Paris, France
- Alexandre Loupy, MD, PhD • Université de Paris Cité, INSERM, PARCC, Paris, France

Moderators:
- Roslyn Mannon, MD, FAST • University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
- Mona Doshi, MBBS • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Sponsored by AST's Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP) and the AST Education Committee. All AST Journal Clubs are free but registration is required to attend live.


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This content was developed independently by AST and supported by a financial contribution from Sanofi