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Friday, May 25, 2012

Simple Urine Test May Predict AKI In Sepsis Patients.

MedPage Today Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (5/14, Fiore) reports, "A simple and inexpensive urine test appears to predict which sepsis patients will go on to develop an acute kidney injury (AKI)," according to research presented at the National Kidney Foundation meeting. "Patients who were found to have de novo dipstick proteinuria had a significantly higher risk of AKI (P=0.001)," researchers found after assessing data on 328 patients with sepsis.

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