Salazar-Corcoran Creatinine Clearance (Obesity)
Salazar-Corcoran creatinine clearance (Salazar & Corcoran 1988): a CrCl estimate for obese patients in whom Cockcroft-Gault overestimates, from age, weight, height, and creatinine.
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Example
- Age
- 50 years
- Weight
- 120 kg
- Height
- 170 cm
- Serum creatinine
- 1.2 mg/dL
- Female sex
- No
Result: Salazar-Corcoran creatinine clearance 98.3 mL/min (male equation).
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What the result means
- Estimate
- Creatinine clearance for obese patients where Cockcroft-Gault overestimates. An estimate, not a dosing order.
What you enter
- Age
- Weight
- Height
- Serum creatinine
- Female sex
How this is calculated
Salazar DE, Corcoran GB. Predicting creatinine clearance and renal drug clearance in obese patients from estimated fat-free body mass. Am J Med. 1988;84(6):1053-1060. Read the source ↗
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