Joel Topf, MD: Acute Kidney Injury, Contrast-Associated Nephropathy, and Precious Bodily Fluids
The External Medicine Podcast
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Is There a Bump in Creatinine That Means Injury to the Kidney?
There is a new licensed test called the nephro check, which is essentially it's two different markers of cell growth, cell repair that increase in times of stress or injury to the kidney. The study, the test will either be positive or negative but it doesn't give just a positive or negative it actually also gives you a number and the higher the number the more likely it is even if it's positiveA higher positive is more significant that a less high positive one. It is definitely part of the future. We're like all of medicine nephrology is moving forward.
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