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Urine IL-18 levels as a predictor of acute kidney injury in intensive care patients

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boxed-textParikh CR et al. (2005) Urine IL-18 is an early diagnostic marker for acute kidney injury and predicts mortality in the intensive care unit. J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 3046–3052

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