#250 Nephrotic Syndrome vs. Glomerulonephritis with Kidney Boy, Dr. Joel Topf
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Nephrotic Syndrome - Protein to Cranny Ratio?
If we suspect nephrotic syndrome, it's pretty time intensive, labor intensive and sometimes hard just to get the patient and the staff to collect 24 hours of urine. So I usually like to start with a urine protein to create neph rotic ratio. If that ratio is greater than two grams per gram creatinine, that's wildly abnormal protein area. And if you don't have an explanation, you're gonna go get a kidney biopsy to figure that out.
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