UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
发明人:
SINGBARTL, KAI,KELLUM, JOHN, A
申请号:
NZ59247309
公开号:
NZ592473A
申请日:
2009.09.24
申请国别(地区):
NZ
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要:
Disclosed is a method, comprising a) providing at least two urine samples derived from a patient, wherein said patient exhibited an acute kidney injury, and wherein said at least two urine samples are collected between the first and fourteenth day starting after initiation of replacement therapy on said patient; b) detecting persistently elevated hyaluronic acid in said urine samples using a hyaluronic acid binding protein; and c) under conditions such that persistently elevated hyaluronic acid is detected in said urine samples, predicting said patient to require long-term dialysis.