#250 Nephrotic Syndrome vs. Glomerulonephritis with Kidney Boy, Dr. Joel Topf
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Getting an Albumin to Creatinine Ratio for a Diabetic Patient?
One of the measures that we, like the quality measures that we're held accountable to is getting an albumin to creatinine ratio for a diabetic patients. The ideal thing is to measure what doesn't need to be converted, which is the albumin-acrant ratio. It's much more reliable and it's gonna be much more comparable from year to year and month to month in the same patient. We've talked about the tankry risk formula. They don't ask for a protein-acrants ratio, they're looking for an albumin-ACrant ratio because that one is most predictive of future kidney failure problems.
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