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How do you utilize Cystatin-C as a marker of renal dysfunction in patients with chronic liver disease?

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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus

Liver disease is definitely one of those circumstances that results in lower creatinine production. As such, cystatin-C is likely a better marker than creatinine for renal function in those patients, even more than usual.

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