Clinical review: Predictive value of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin for acute kidney injury in intensive care patients

Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) may be an early marker of acute kidney injury (AKI), but elevated NGAL occurs in a wide range of systemic diseases. Because intensive care patients have high levels of comorbidity, our objective was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to...

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Main Authors: Hjortrup, Peter B, Haase, Nicolai, Wetterslev, Mik, Perner, Anders
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672520/