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Published in: Critical Care 4/2010

01-08-2010 | Journal club critique

NGAL: an emerging tool for predicting severity of AKI is easily detected by a clinical assay

Authors: Wes Gabbard, Eric B Milbrandt, John A Kellum

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 4/2010

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Bennett M, Dent CL, Ma Q, Dastrala S, Grenier F, Workman R, Syed H, Ali S, Barasch J, Devarajan P: Urine NGAL predicts severity of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery: a prospective study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2008, 3:665-673 [1]. …
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Metadata
Title
NGAL: an emerging tool for predicting severity of AKI is easily detected by a clinical assay
Authors
Wes Gabbard
Eric B Milbrandt
John A Kellum
Publication date
01-08-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 4/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9071

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