Renal clearance

Renal clearance is the rate at which certain substances are removed from the plasma by the kidneys. It helps to measure how well the kidneys are filtering waste products from the blood. A higher renal clearance suggests the substance may be cleared almost completely in one pass through the kidneys, whereas a low value suggests that a substance may not be eliminated by the kidneys at all. In calculations, the renal clearance (C) of a substance x �, will be directly proportional to the urine concentration of the substance x ([U]x) and the urine flow rate (V), and inversely proportional to x's plasma concentration ([P]x): C=[U]x V[P]x