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Departments of
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Pediatrics,
3 Biochemistry, and
6 Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L1 Canada.
5 Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 Canada.
Departments of
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Laboratory Medicine,
4 Pediatric Nephrology, and
8 Urology, University Hospital Charité, Humboldt University, D-10117 Berlin, Germany.
7 Dade Behring GmbH, Marburg, Germany.
aAddress correspondence to this author at: Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiochemistry, University Hospital Charité, Humboldt University Berlin, Schumannstrasse 20/21, D-10117 Berlin, Germany. Fax 4930-450569912; e-mail friedrich.priem{at}charite.de.
Background: Because of the limitations of serum creatinine as a marker of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in children, we assessed the diagnostic accuracy of the novel marker ß-trace protein (BTP) in comparison with cystatin C (Cys-C), ß2-microglobulin (ß2-MG), and creatinine as conventional indicators of reduced GFR.
Methods: We obtained serum samples from 225 children (age range, 0.2–18 years) with various renal pathologies who were referred for nuclear medicine clearance investigations (technetium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid or chromium-EDTA). We measured Cys-C, BTP (nephelometric tests; Dade Behring), ß2-MG (Tinaquant; Roche), and creatinine (enzymatic assay; Creatinine-PAP; Roche).
Results: Seventy-five children had reduced GFR (<90 mL · min-1 · 1.73 m-2). One hundred fifty children (independent of gender and age) with values >90 mL · min-1 · 1.73 m-2 comprised the control group with gaussian distributions of BTP and Cys-C concentrations. The upper reference limits (97.5 percentile) were 1.01 mg/L for BTP and 1.20 mg/L for Cys-C. The correlations of nuclear medicine clearance with the reciprocals of BTP, Cys-C, and the Schwartz GFR estimate were significantly higher (r = 0.653, 0.765, and 0.706, respectively; P <0.05) than with the reciprocal of creatinine or ß2-MG (r = 0.500 and 0.557, respectively). ROC analysis showed a significantly higher diagnostic accuracy of BTP, Cys-C, and the GFR estimate for the detection of impaired GFR than serum creatinine (P <0.05). Compared to creatinine, BTP increased the diagnostic sensitivity by 
30%, but it was not more sensitive than Cys-C or the Schwartz GFR estimate.
Conclusions: BTP is superior to serum creatinine and an alternative for Cys-C to detect mildly reduced GFR in children, but it is not better than the Schwartz GFR estimate.
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