Diagnostic and prognostic performance of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in patients with cirrhosis and acute kidney injury.
Carmine Gabriele GambinoSalvatore PianoMatteo StenicoMarta TononAlessandra BroccaValeria CalvinoSimone InciccoNicola ZeniRoberta GagliardiChiara CosmaMartina ZaninottoPatrizia BurraUmberto CilloDaniela BassoPaolo AngeliPublished in: Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (2022)
uNGAL is an adequate biomarker for making a differential diagnosis of AKI in cirrhosis and predicting the response to terlipressin and albumin in patients with HRS-AKI. In addition, it is an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality.
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