title: Clinical utility of calculated creatinine clearance as a guide to chemotherapy in patients with gynecologic malignancies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationship between calculated and measured creatinine clearance, and also to evaluate the clinical utility of calculated creatinine clearance before administration of chemotherapy in patients with gynecologic malignancies.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 38 patients with gynecologic malignancies, a total-69 paired creatinine clearance measured by 24-hour urinary creatinine clearance and calculated were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The significant correlation (r = 0.597, p < 0.0001) was observed between creatinine clearances determined by both methods. There were 26 (37.7%) 24-hour urine collections. The correlation between two methods improved when these inaccurate samples were excluded (r = 0.876, p < 0.0001). In addition, if a creatinine clearance of 50 ml/min is set as a threshold for dose modification, only 2.9% of the patients would have received reduced doses inappropriately, by using the calculated creatinine clearance alone.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results suggest that in patients with gynecologic malignancies, a calculated creatinine clearance prior to chemotherapy is sufficient for evaluation of renal function and measured creatinine clearance would be determined only when calculated creatinine clearance is below the threshold for dose modification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Hospital, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003404:Creatinine / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007677:Kidney Function Tests; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine