urea nitrogen : creatinine ratio(English)

• helps to differentiate between prerenal acute kidney injury (PR AKI) and intrinsic AKI. This ratio is simple to use and is often put forward as a reliable diagnostic tool, although there are doubts about validity
• AKI, BUN
• Nephrology, Ratio-based metric, Emergency medicine, Critical Care, Clinical chemistry
• https://doi.org…2882-017-0591-9