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NGAL: an emerging tool for predicting severity of AKI is easily detected by a clinical assay

Wes Gabbard1, Eric B Milbrandt2 and John A Kellum3*

Author Affiliations

1 Clinical Fellow, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

3 Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Critical Care 2010, 14:318 doi:10.1186/cc9071

Published: 23 August 2010

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Bennett M, Dent CL, Ma Q, Dastrala S, Grenier F, Workman R, Syed H, Ali S, Barasch J, Devarajan P: Urine NGAL predicts severity of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery: a prospective study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2008, 3:665-673 [1].