Browsing College of Health Sciences (CHS) by Author "Conroy, Andrea L."
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Methods to estimate baseline creatinine and define acute kidney injury in lean Ugandan children with severe malaria: A prospective cohort study
Batte, Anthony; Starr, Michelle C.; Schwaderer, Andrew L.; Opoka, Robert O.; Namazzi, Ruth; Nishiguchi, Erika S. Phelps; Ssenkusu, John M.; John, Chandy C.; Conroy, Andrea L. (BMC, 2020)Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasingly recognized as a consequential clinical complication in children with severe malaria. However, approaches to estimate baseline creatinine (bSCr) are not standardized in ... -
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin is elevated in children with acute kidney injury and sickle cell anemia, and predicts mortality
Batte, Anthony; Menon, Sahit; Ssenkusu, John M.; Kiguli, Sarah; Kalyesubula, Robert; Lubega, Joseph; Berrens, Zachary; Mutebi, Edrisa Ibrahim; Ogwang, Rodney; Opoka, Robert O.; John, Chandy C.; Conroy, Andrea L. (Elsevier, 2022)Urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a biomarker of acute kidney injury that has been adapted to a urine dipstick test. However, there is limited data on its use in low and-middle-income countries ...