Importance of Urinary NGAL Relative to Serum Creatinine Level for Predicting Acute Neonatal Kidney Injury

• Main Authors: Nastaran Khosravi (Author), Farnoosh Seirafianpour (Author), Mehdi Mashaiekhi (Author), Sepideh Safari (Author), Nasrin Khalesi (Author), Hassan Otukesh (Author), Rozita Hoseini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) is focused on the measurement of glomerular filtration rate based on serum creatinine; nevertheless, due to the effects of the underlying confounding parameters, this procedure tends to have some problems. Recent findings identified neutrophil g...