Urinary Biomarkers: Alone Are They Enough?

Affiliations

¹ Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy, Indianapolis, Indiana bmolitor@iu.edu.

Editorial

Bruce A Molitoris. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Jul.

. 2015 Jul;26(7):1485-8.

doi: 10.1681/ASN.2014111145. Epub 2014 Dec 22.

¹ Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy, Indianapolis, Indiana bmolitor@iu.edu.

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Keywords: ARF; biomarkers; kidney function.

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