The urea-creatinine ratio as a novel biomarker of critical illness-associated catabolism

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Division and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. jan.gunst@kuleuven.be.
² Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
³ Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of General Internal Medicine and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.

Editorial

Jan Gunst et al. Intensive Care Med. 2019 Dec.

. 2019 Dec;45(12):1813-1815.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-019-05810-y. Epub 2019 Oct 16.

¹ Clinical Division and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. jan.gunst@kuleuven.be.
² Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
³ Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of General Internal Medicine and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.

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Comment on

Elevated urea-to-creatinine ratio provides a biochemical signature of muscle catabolism and persistent critical illness after major trauma.
Haines RW, Zolfaghari P, Wan Y, Pearse RM, Puthucheary Z, Prowle JR. Haines RW, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2019 Dec;45(12):1718-1731. doi: 10.1007/s00134-019-05760-5. Epub 2019 Sep 17. Intensive Care Med. 2019. PMID: 31531715