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Overcoming the Limitations of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Diagnostics in the Emergency Department: the Biomarker Proenkephalin for Early Recognition of AKI

Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Di Somma, MD PhD; University La Sapienza Rome

Acute Kidney Injury is a serious complication of multiple severe conditions such as sepsis, yet is difficult to recognize with the current standard of care diagnostics in the patients presented at the ED. The novel functional kidney biomarker Proenkephalin A can bridge the gap in timely diagnostics of AKI in the ED.

Kindly note: SphingoTec currently offers only microtiter plate assays. The Nexus IB10 product line is no longer available.

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Prof. Salvatore Di Somma, MD PhD
Director Emergency Medicine
Chairman Postgraduate School of Emergency Medicine
University La Sapienza Rome

Director Telemedicine and Territorial Emergencies 

University La Sapienza Rome-ASL Latina.Italy

President GREAT Network Italy
Rome,Italy

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