New Kidney Protein Speeds, Improves Diagnosis Of Failing Kidneys
Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 20:21
in Health & Medicine
To tackle the gap between damage, diagnosis and treatment of acute kidney injury, a unique team of scientists, physicians, and medical students is focusing on a small protein found in the urine at the time of sudden kidney failure. The protein detects kidney injury one to two days sooner than the creatinine test for renal failure.