Defining acute kidney injury: What is the most appropriate metric?

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 208-215

  Solomon, Richard ^a,b   Segal, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Creatinine; Glomerular filtration rate

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CREATININE; CYSTATIN C;

ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTRAST MEDIA; CREATININE; CYSTATINS; EXERCISE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TUBULES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, ACUTE;

EID: 41349121822     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0746     Document Type: Review

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