Creatinine as the gold standard for kidney injury biomarker studies

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3263-3265

  Waikar, Sushrut S ^a   Betensky, Rebecca A ^b   Bonventre, Joseph V ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Biomarkers; Creatinine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; LCN2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LIPOCALIN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; DIALYSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LUNG INJURY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; BLOOD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LIPOCALINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 73949150052     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp428     Document Type: Note

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