Pancreas: NGAL is a potential early diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of severe acute pancreatitis.

摘要

Early diagnosis of severe acute pancreatitis may be facilitated and patient outcomes improved by measuring serum levels of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL). "We have identified a new, early biomarker [NGAL] that can help solve the clinical dilemma of whether a patient with symptoms suggestive of acute pancreatitis will develop mild or severe (life-threatening) disease," says Surinder Batra, who works at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.