In addition, infection-associated AKI (“septicAKI”) was not specially identified as a separated category for thefinal etiologic adjudication, some of them might have been classified either astoxic ATN, ischemic ATN or prerenal according to each episode’ characteristics.Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin testing being influenced by concomitantinfections, it might have negatively affected discriminative accuracy results. Here, LCN2 is linked to infection.