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You are asked to see a patient in acute renal failure. You note that his creatinine has increased from 100 to 200 umol/L in one day.
Why is it inappropriate to estimate their GFR using an estimation formula (such as Cockcroft-Gault or MDRD) by inserting 200 umol/L as the value for creatinine?
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