Biomarkers in medicine
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Biomarkers in medicine · Dec 2013
Novel biomarkers for the prediction of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing liver transplantation.
Because of the delayed rise of serum creatinine concentrations, novel biomarkers such as NGAL, GST and KIM-1 are proposed to detect acute kidney injury (AKI). In this study we evaluated these biomarkers. ⋯ NGAL is a promising biomarker for detecting AKI in patients after liver transplantation.