GFR CALCULATOR FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 1 TO 17 YEARS OLD

Bedside Schwartz and Counahan-Barratt Methods

by Stephen Z. Fadem, M.D., FASN

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Plasma creatinine
mg/dL umol/L
Height
centimeters inches
Age
Gender Male Female
eGFR (Bedside Schwartz Formula) =schwartz

eGFR (Counahan-Barratt) = cb





NKF K/DOQI REFERENCES AND OTHER RESOURCES

(See Figure 12 for Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease)

  1. Cystatin C Children's Calculator
  2. Staples A, LeBlond R, Watkins S, Wong C, Brandt J. Validation of the revised Schwartz estimating equation in a predominantly non-CKD population. Pediatr Nephrol. 2010 Nov;25(11):2321-6
  3. Schwartz GJ, Muņoz A, Schneider MF, Mak RH, Kaskel F, Warady BA, Furth SL.New equations to estimate GFR in children with CKD . J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009 Mar;20(3):629-37.
  4. Ronald J. Hogg, Susan Furth, Kevin V. Lemley, Ronald Portman, George J. Schwartz, Josef Coresh, Ethan Balk, Joseph Lau, Adeera Levin, Annamaria T. Kausz, Garabed Eknoyan, and Andrew S. Levey. National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease in Children and Adolescents: Evaluation, Classification, and Stratification Pediatrics, Jun 2003; 111: 1416 - 1421.
  5. Schwartz GJ, Haycock GB Edelmann CM Jr, Spitzer A. A simple estimate of glomerular filtration rate in children derived from body length and plasma creatinine. Pediatrics 1976;58:259-263
  6. Schwartz GJ, Feld LG, Langford DJ. A simple estimate of glomerular filtration rate in full-term infants during the first year of life. J Pediatr. 1984;104:849-854
  7. Schwartz GJ, Gauthier B. A simple estimate of glomerular filtration rate in adolescent boys. J Pediatr 1985; 106:522-526
  8. Counahan R, Chantler C, Ghazali S, Kirkwood B, Rose F, Barratt TM. Estimation of glomerular filtration rate from plasma creatinine concentration in children. Arch Dis Child. 1976;51:875-878
  9. Current Pediatric Calculator

Cockcroft-Gault Calculator (defaults to SI Units)

MDRD Calculator - Extended version

The National Kidney Foundation K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease, American Journal of Kidney Disease, 39:S1,S1-S266, 2002


Programmed by Stephen Z. Fadem, M.D., FASN and Brian Rosenthal
MDRD Calculator and CKD Worksheet © 2000 - 2010, Nephron Information Center
and licensed to The National Kidney Foundation. Page coding updated September 30, 2012 at 07:47 pm.