THE KRÄG-JORGENSEN RIFLE.

Richard Jorgensen

the well-known tendency of particular maladies to show breed-specificity can be used to infer likely sharing of descent of the causative alleles. As made clear in the volume under review, this is as true of major-gene diseases such as copper toxicosis and various retinopathies, as it is of the more complex and more prevalent cardiomyopathies, cancers, and dermatitis. Conduction of clinical tria...

RIFLE is not RIFLE: on the comparability of results

Page 1 of 2 (page number not for citation purposes) In the consensus RIFLE criteria [1] of acute kidney injury (AKI) the thresholds given for serum creatinine (sCr) increase and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decrease (Table 1) do not correspond [2]. Direct measurement of GFR in clinical practice is difficult, and values are more often estimated (eGFR) by the Cockroft-Gault equation or the Mo...

RIFLE is alive: long live RIFLE

Diagnosis and classification of acute kidney injury was addressed systematically only 8 years ago when the classification called RIFLE (acronym of Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of function and End stage Kidney disease describing progressive severity of renal damage) was created. Since then, several studies have tried to apply, validate, criticize and modify this initial scheme: as a matter of fac...

Biographical Feature: James Jorgensen, Ph.D.

In the words of Gary Doern, Ph.D., a colleague, collaborator, and friend, “Few people have made more significant and lasting contributions to the field of clinical microbiology than has Jim Jorgensen, not only as a dedicated practitioner but also as an extremely productive researcher, an uncommonly effective educator, a broad reaching author, and a lifelong advocate for the discipline.” Such se...

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