LCN2 and acute kidney injury: Although the diagnostic and prognostic importance of NGAL in CI-AKI is emerging in literature, little is known about the use of “point-of-care” platform for measurement of plasmatic levels of this biomarker in clinical practice, offering rapid and as accurate results as standardized laboratory testing in a remarkable shorter time interval; moreover, the only few studies with this laboratory tool have been conducted in the emergency department setting [22, 23].