title: Diagnostic accuracy of urinary creatinine concentration in the estimation of differential renal function in patients with obstructive uropathy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the diagnostic accuracy of spot urine creatinine concentration (UCC) as a new test for the evaluation of differential renal function in obstructed kidneys (DRF(ok)) drained by percutaneous nephrostomy tube (PCNT).
  
  
  METHODS
  In patients with obstructed kidneys drained by PCNT, DRF(ok) was derived from UCC by comparing the value of UCC in the obstructed kidney to the value in the contralateral kidney, and was derived from dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) renal scans and creatinine clearance (CCr) using standard methods. Subsequently, the results of UCC were compared to the results of DMSA and CCr.
  
  
  RESULTS
  61 patients were enrolled. Bland-Altman plots to compare DMSA and UCC showed that the upper limit of agreement was 14.8% (95% CI 10.7-18.5) and the lower limit was -19.9% (95% CI -23.8 to -16.1). The sensitivity and specificity of detecting DMSA DRF(ok) < or = 35% using UCC was 85.2 and 91.2%, respectively. When UCC was compared to CCr, Bland-Altman tests gave an upper limit of agreement of 10.4% (95% CI 7.9-12.8) and a lower limit of agreement of -11.3% (95% CI -13.8 to -8.9).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  UCC is accurate in the estimation of DRF(ok) drained by PCNT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery (Division of Urology), Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait. alhunayan@gmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Hunayan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Ateeqi
authors.forename: E O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Kehinde
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thalib
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Loutfi
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Mojiminiyi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003404:Creatinine / Q000378:metabolism / Q000652:urine*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D009403:Nephrostomy, Percutaneous; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D004113:Succimer; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine; D004113:Succimer