We hope you have had the chance to watch the successful AACC webinar The Use of Biomarkers in Chronic Kidney Disease and the Novel Disorder Shrunken Pore Syndrome with Dr. Anders Grubb. In this webinar Dr. Grubb is discussing using creatinine and cystatin C to diagnose Shrunken Pore Syndrome (SPS).
Cystatin C and creatinine together diagnose SPS
Dr. Grubb and his colleagues described SPS for the first time in an article in Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation in 2015. In the AACC CLN Stat article To Catch Shrunken Pore Syndrome, Measure Cystatin C from July 2020, Dr. Grubb states that both cystatin C and creatinine are needed to diagnose SPS. Dr. Grubb therefore recommends to include the determination of cystatin C in the KDIGO guidelines which are from 2012, three years before SPS was discovered.
New articles about shrunken pore syndrome (SPS)
Since the launch of the webinar September 2019 more studies have been published regarding the novel shrunken pore syndrome (SPS):
- Shrunken pore syndrome - a common kidney disorder with high mortality. Diagnosis, prevalence, pathophysiology and treatment options A review article by Professor Grubb published in June this year in The Journal of Clinical Biochemistry
- Shrunken pore syndrome and mortality: a cohort study of patients with measured GFR and known comorbidities By A Åkesson et al. in May this year in The Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
- Evidence for shrunken pore syndrome in children By Bakker E. et al and was published in Nov 2019 in The Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
Webinar: Gentian Cystatin C Immunoassay
Want to know more about Gentian’s Cystatin C Immunoassay? Watch this webinar with Gentian’s Product Manager for Cystatin C, Gaute Tangen.
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Shrunken Pore Syndrome (SPS) on Wikipedia
Shrunken pore syndrome is now described on Wikipedia both in English and in Swedish:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrunken_pore_syndrome
- https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krympt-por-syndrom
