Urinary NGAL in gastrointestinal diseases can be used as an indicator of early infection in addition to acute kidney injury marker.
Yuichi KojimaAtsunori TsuchiyaMasaki MitoYusuke WatanabeYuzo KawataKentaro TominagaShuji TeraiPublished in: JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2024)
Urinary NGAL could be used as an indicator of infectious diseases rather than an indicator of AKI in inflammatory bowel diseases and cirrhosis, and could predict the prognosis of patients with gastrointestinal diseases.