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Alexander Zarbock

Alexander Zarbock

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Immunology

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746
National Ranking
46

Medicine

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Overview

Alexander Zarbock is a researcher affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with a concentration on nephrology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, epidemiology, and critical care and intensive care medicine. The research spans a variety of topics within these domains.

The main topics covered in Zarbock's research include:

  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

Recent notable publications by Alexander Zarbock include:

  • Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 28th Acute Disease Quality Initiative workgroup, 2023, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Acute kidney injury, 2021, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 25th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Workgroup, 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Timing of Initiation of Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Recommendations on Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers From the Acute Disease Quality Initiative Consensus Conference, 2020, JAMA Network Open

Alexander Zarbock collaborates frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • John A. Kellum
  • Melanie Meersch
  • Marlies Ostermann
  • Thilo von Groote
  • Lui G. Forni

Their work has been published in several key scientific venues including:

  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • BMJ Open
  • Critical Care
  • Cells

Best Publications

  • Acute kidney disease and renal recovery: consensus report of the Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) 16 Workgroup

    Lakhmir S. Chawla;Rinaldo Bellomo;Azra Bihorac;Stuart L. Goldstein

  • Global epidemiology and outcomes of acute kidney injury

    Eric A. J. Hoste;John A. Kellum;Nicholas M. Selby;Alexander Zarbock

  • Effect of Early vs Delayed Initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy on Mortality in Critically Ill Patients With Acute Kidney Injury: The ELAIN Randomized Clinical Trial

    Alexander Zarbock;John A. Kellum;Christoph Schmidt;Hugo Van Aken

  • Prevention of cardiac surgery-associated AKI by implementing the KDIGO guidelines in high risk patients identified by biomarkers: the PrevAKI randomized controlled trial

    Melanie Meersch;Christoph Schmidt;Andreas Hoffmeier;Hugo Van Aken

  • Platelet-neutrophil-interactions: linking hemostasis and inflammation.

    Alexander Zarbock;Alexander Zarbock;Renata K. Polanowska-Grabowska;Klaus Ley

  • Complete reversal of acid-induced acute lung injury by blocking of platelet-neutrophil aggregation

    Alexander Zarbock;Kai Singbartl;Klaus Ley

  • Neutrophils scan for activated platelets to initiate inflammation

    Vinatha Sreeramkumar;José M. Adrover;Ivan Ballesteros;Maria Isabel Cuartero

  • COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 25th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Workgroup.

    Mitra K. Nadim;Lui G. Forni;Lui G. Forni;Ravindra L. Mehta;Michael J. Connor

  • Timing of Initiation of Renal-Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury.

    Starrt-Aki Investigators

  • GDF-15 is an inhibitor of leukocyte integrin activation required for survival after myocardial infarction in mice

    Tibor Kempf;Alexander Zarbock;Christian Widera;Stefan Butz

  • Recommendations on Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers From the Acute Disease Quality Initiative Consensus Conference: A Consensus Statement.

    Marlies Ostermann;Alexander Zarbock;Stuart Goldstein;Kianoush Kashani

  • Leukocyte ligands for endothelial selectins: specialized glycoconjugates that mediate rolling and signaling under flow

    Alexander Zarbock;Klaus Ley;Rodger P. McEver;Andrés Hidalgo

  • Controversies in acute kidney injury : conclusions from a Kidney Disease : Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference

    Marlies Ostermann;Rinaldo Bellomo;Emmanuel A. Burdmann;Kent Doi

  • Effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on kidney injury among high-risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial.

    Alexander Zarbock;Christoph Schmidt;Hugo Van Aken;Carola Wempe

  • Urinary TIMP-2 and IGFBP7 as Early Biomarkers of Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Recovery following Cardiac Surgery

    Melanie Meersch;Christoph Schmidt;Hugo Van Aken;Sven Martens

  • Second consensus on the assessment of sublingual microcirculation in critically ill patients: results from a task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

    Can Ince;E Christiaan Boerma;Maurizio Cecconi;Daniel De Backer

  • To NET or not to NET:current opinions and state of the science regarding the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps

    Sebastian Boeltz;Poorya Amini;Hans Joachim Anders;Felipe Andrade

  • A Neutrophil Timer Coordinates Immune Defense and Vascular Protection

    Jose M Adrover;Carlos del Fresno;Georgiana Crainiciuc;Maria Isabel Cuartero

  • Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury revisited: pathophysiology, prevention and future therapies.

    Alexander Zarbock;Hernando Gomez;John A. Kellum

  • Spleen Tyrosine Kinase Syk Is Necessary for E-Selectin-Induced αLβ2 Integrin-Mediated Rolling on Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1

    Alexander Zarbock;Clifford A. Lowell;Klaus Ley

  • Leukocyte extravasation and vascular permeability are each controlled in vivo by different tyrosine residues of VE-cadherin

    Florian Wessel;Mark Winderlich;Maren Holm;Maike Frye

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Ley
Klaus Ley Augusta University
Hugo Van Aken
Hugo Van Aken University of Münster
John A. Kellum
John A. Kellum University of Pittsburgh
Dietmar Vestweber
Dietmar Vestweber Max Planck Society
Eric Hoste
Eric Hoste Ghent University Hospital
Marlies Ostermann
Marlies Ostermann King's College London
Andrés Hidalgo
Andrés Hidalgo Yale University
Oliver Soehnlein
Oliver Soehnlein University of Münster
Jan T. Kielstein
Jan T. Kielstein Hannover Medical School
Christian Weber
Christian Weber Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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