Acute Kidney Injury Recognition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Kidney International Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 530-543

  Cerdá, Jorge ^a   Mohan, Sumit ^b   Garcia Garcia, Guillermo ^c   Jha, Vivekanand ^d   Samavedam, Srinivas ^e   Gowrishankar, Swarnalata ^f   Bagga, Arvind ^g   Chakravarthi, Rajasekara ^h   Mehta, Ravindra ⁱ  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL CIVIL DE GUADALAJARA FRAY ANTONIO ALCALDE   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Virinchi Hospital   (India)

^f APOLLO HOSPITAL   (India)

^g ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^h Star Hospitals   (India)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; biomarkers; detection; developing countries; diagnosis; recognition; resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027876235     PISSN: 24680249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2017.04.009     Document Type: Article

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