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- Title
The predictive performance of plasma neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) increases with grade of acute kidney injury.
- Authors
Haase-Fielitz, Anja; Bellomo, Rinaldo; Devarajan, Prasad; Bennett, Michael; Story, David; Matalanis, George; Frei, Ulrich; Dragun, Duska; Haase, Michael
- Abstract
Background. In adult cardiac surgery, the predictive value for AKI of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) appears to have wide variability. The choice of definition of acute kidney injury (AKI) might, at least in part, account for such variability.
- Subjects
CARDIAC surgery; NEUTROPHILS; CARDIOMYOPLASTY; KIDNEY injuries; GRANULOCYTES
- Publication
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2009, Vol 24, Issue 11, p3349
- ISSN
0931-0509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndt/gfp234