title: [Usefulness of serum cystatin C for the diagnosis of impaired renal function].
abstract: Creatinine clearance (Ccr) is generally used as a halmark of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in clinical medicine. Recently, it has been suggested that serum cystatin C measurement in serum reflects GFR. We compared serum cystatin C, serum creatinine, and serum beta2-microgrobrin in 70 patients with renal diseases in reference to creatinine clearance. The correlation between Ccr and 1/cystatin C was higher (r = 0.830) than that between Ccr and 1/serum creatinine (r = 0.789) or 1/serum beta2-microgroburin (r = 0.732). The levels of serum cystatin C in patients with Ccr ranging from 51 to 70 ml/min were significantly higher than those in patients with Ccr ranging more than 91 ml/min. Receiver-operated characteristic (ROC) analysis revealed that serum cystatin C showed the highest area under the curve among the three when Ccr = 90 ml/min was used as the cutoff point. We conclude that serum cystatin C is more useful than serum creatinine to detect early renal dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe.
authors.forename: Chinami
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Oyabu
authors.forename: Nobuhide
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: Mitio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Umezu
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mukai
authors.forename: Seiji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawano
authors.forename: Shunichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumagai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D055316:Cystatin C; D015891:Cystatins / Q000097:blood*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D007677:Kidney Function Tests / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012372:ROC Curve; D001613:beta 2-Microglobulin / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; C525030:CST3 protein, human; D055316:Cystatin C; D015891:Cystatins; D001613:beta 2-Microglobulin; D003404:Creatinine