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GFR cannot be measured directly. The urinary clearance of an ideal filtration marker, such as inulin, iothalamate or iohexol, is the gold standard for the measurement of GFR. This is cumbersome in clinical practice and serum levels of endogenous filtration markers, such as creatinine, have traditionally been used to estimate GFR.
