BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury(AKI)in cirrhosis is *** diagnosis of AKI in cirrhosis patients depends on clinical presentation and laboratory tests like serum ***,urine biomarkers could also be used to assess the type...
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BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury(AKI)in cirrhosis is *** diagnosis of AKI in cirrhosis patients depends on clinical presentation and laboratory tests like serum ***,urine biomarkers could also be used to assess the type of AKI and the severity of the *** performed a systematic review with metaanalysis to evaluate the association with urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin(NGAL)marker in identifying acute tubular necrosis(ATN)in patients with *** To assess the reliability of urine NGAL in the detection of ATN in patients with *** We systematically searched MEDLINE and PubMed using keywords including“urine biomarkers”,“NGAL”,“kidney dysfunction”,and“cirrhosis”to identify relevant *** was screened and *** studies assessed hospitalized cirrhosis patients with AKI using the urine NGAL *** synthesized the data using diagnostic odds ratio(DOR),comparative and descriptive analyses,and Cochran Mantel-Haenszel(CMH)statistics to evaluate *** Three thousand seven hundred and one patients with cirrhosis were analyzed from a total of 21 cohort *** DOR of 14 of those studies[pooled DOR:22.150,(95%CI:17.58-27.89),P<0.0001]demonstrated a significant association between urine NGAL levels and its identification of *** stratification by cirrhosis status,heterogeneity was analyzed and showed a significant non-zero correlation between NGAL and AKI(CMH statistic=702.19,P<0.0001).CONCLUSION In patients with cirrhosis,the use of urine NGAL is a reliable biomarker for detecting ATN and identifying the etiology of AKI.
BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic has brought fundamental changes to our problems and priorities,especially those related to the healthcare *** was one of the countries severely affected by the...
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BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic has brought fundamental changes to our problems and priorities,especially those related to the healthcare *** was one of the countries severely affected by the harsh consequences of the COVID-19 *** To understand the challenges faced by the healthcare system during a *** The literature search for this review was conducted using PubMed,EMBASE,Scopus,Web of Science,and Google *** also used Reference Citation Analysis(RCA)to search and improve the *** focused on the published scientific articles concerned with two major vital areas:(1)The Indian healthcare system;and(2)COVID-19 pandemic effects on the Indian healthcare *** The Indian healthcare system was suffering even before the *** pandemic has further stretched the healthcare services in *** main obstacle in the healthcare system was to combat the rising number of communicable as well as noncommunicable *** the pandemic measures,there was a diversion of focus of the already established healthcare services away from the chronic conditions and *** disruption of the vaccination services may have more severe short and long-term consequences than the pandemic’s adverse *** Severely restricted resources limited the interaction of the Indian healthcare system with the COVID-19 ***-establishment of primary healthcare services,maternal and child health services,noncommunicable diseases programs,National Tuberculosis Elimination Program,*** important to prevent serious long-term consequences of this pandemic.
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