Test characteristics of urinary biomarkers depend on quantitation method in acute kidney injury

• Main Authors: Md Ralib, Azrina, Pickering, John W., Shaw, Geoffrey M., Devarajah, Prasad, Edelstein, Charles L., Bonventre, Joseph V., Endre, Zoltan H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Society of Nephrology 2012
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/10612/4/322.full.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/10612/; http://jasn.asnjournals.org/content/23/2/322.full.pdf+html
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

The concentration of urine influences the concentration of urinary biomarkers of AKI. Whether normalization to urinary creatinine concentration, as commonly performed to quantitate albuminuria, is the best method to account for variations in urinary biomarker concentration among patients in the inte...