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(similar to 4 s), which satisfies the real-world clinical requirements of IGRT.”
“Purpose: The value of NGAL (neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin) and L-FABP LDC000067 (liver-type fatty acid binding protein) has been highlighted as a novel biomarker of detection of acute renal failure in children after cardiac surgery. Interventional cardiologists are being asked more frequently to perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and contrast nephropathy is its potentially serious complication. We aimed to prospectively assess NGAL and L-FABP in patients with normal serum creatinine undergoing PCI due to unstable angina.
Material and Methods: We measured serum NGAL, urinary NGAL and L-FABP using commercially available kits before and after 2, 4, 12, 24 and 48 hours following PCI in 25 patients.
Results:
We found a significant rise in serum NGAL after 2 and 4 hours. Urinary NGAL and urinary L-FABP followed the same pattern. Both markers increased significantly after 4 hours and remained elevated up to 48 10058-F4 concentration hours after PCI. Serum creatinine did not change significantly during the study period.
Conclusions: NGAL and L-FABP may represent a sensitive early biomarkers of renal impairment after PCI. Persistently increased urinary NGAL and L-FABP may suggest renotubular damage in this population.”
“Objective: This AZD2014 in vitro meta-analysis of 5 trials from the Phase 3a insulin degludec (IDeg) clinical trial program evaluated the risk of hypoglycemia in a subset of subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who required high basal insulin doses at the end of the trials.
Methods: This meta-analysis compared glycated hemoglobin (HbA(1c)), fasting plasma glucose
(FPG), basal insulin dose, body weight, and rates of overall and nocturnal confirmed hypoglycemia in a pooled population of T2D subjects using >60 U basal insulin at trial completion. Five Phase 3a, open-label, randomized, treat-to-target, confirmatory 26-or 52-week trials with IDeg (n = 2,262) versus insulin glargine (IGlar) (n = 1,110) administered once daily were included. Overall confirmed hypoglycemia was defined as self-measured blood glucose <56 mg/dL or any episode requiring assistance; nocturnal confirmed hypoglycemia had an onset between 00: 01 and 05: 59 am.
Results: More than one-third of IDeg-(35%) and IGlar-(34%) treated T2D subjects required > 60 U of basal insulin daily at the ends of the trial.