Diagnostic performance of serum blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio for distinguishing prerenal from intrinsic acute kidney injury in the emergency department

BACKGROUND: The blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio (BCR) has been used since the early 1940s to help clinicians differentiate between prerenal acute kidney injury (PR AKI) and intrinsic AKI (I AKI). This ratio is simple to use and often put forward as a reliable diagnostic tool even though litt...

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Autores principales: Manoeuvrier, Guillaume, Bach-Ngohou, Kalyane, Batard, Eric, Masson, Damien, Trewick, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28545421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0591-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28545421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0591-9

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