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Abbreviations on Medicoinvestor – Don’t you just HATE when someone uses an abbreviation and you havn’t got a clue…
Don’t despair – Abbreviation Guide is here 🙂 -the list is probably incomplete – please consider it a work in progress) and for good measure – we added some layman terms of the terminology we use.
- ABBOTT – Very large succesfull USbased diagnostic company listed on NYSE www.abbott.com
- ACP-PCI – Activated Protein C – Protein C Inhibitor – a marker used in sepsis
- ALERE – Manufacturer of the Triage Analyzing system www.alere.com
- AKI – Acute Kidney Injury – a potentially lethal disease
- AKIN –The Acute Kidney Injury Network – almost all major companies/organisations working in kidney related areas
- APACHE I/II/III = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, version I/II/ III respectively
- ANALYZER – machinery handling the tests – placed either at bedside og in Central Laboratories
- ARCHITECT: Abbotts analyzer system
- BIOSITE: US pioneer within usage of NGAL, purchased by Alere for 1.6 bn usd.
- CKD: Chronic Kidney Disease
- DANAHER: USbased versatile Diagnostic company – in Denmark best known for purchase of Radiometer A/S, recently bought Beckmann Coulter (calif)
- DAKO – Danish based regional distributor of The NGAL Test – up until now – not really the asset we all expected. Rumoured to be manufacturer of test
- ELI LILLY & Co – USbased pharma company manufacturer of now withdrawn Xigris
- EPO – European Patent Organisation (well – no need to explain that)
- ER – Emergency Room (dansk – skadestuer)
- GFR glomerular filtration rate
- GKA – Global Kidney Academy (online academy)
- HETEROGENOUS test 2-step test requiring separation
- HOMOGENOUS test – 1-step test (see turbidemetry)
- ICU – Intensive Care Units (danish intensiv afdeling)
- IL Instrumentation Laboratory – USbased part of the Werfen Group – manufacturer of analyzers (amongst other things) BioPorto’s FIRST license holder http://us.instrumentationlaboratory.com/
- IVD In Vitro Diagnostics medical device intended to perform diagnoses from assays in test tube (vitro 0 glass in latin)
- INVERNESS (Alere nowadays) leader in home and bedside testing www.alere.com
- NDA Non Disclosure Agreement
- NGAL – Netrophil Gelatinase- Associated Lipocalin : The Biomarker – protein that can be used to measure kidney damage
- NON EXCLUSIVE LICENSE agreement, where the licensor is permitted to give licenses to other interested parties
- P.O.C. – Point of Care, analysis carried out at bedside (mobile analysers such as Alere’s Triage)
- R.A – Random Acces, analyzers placed in the Central Laboratories
- RIFLE criteria, a system that describes the various stages of AKI – it defines three grades of increasing severity of Acute Kidney Injury – risk (class R), injury (class I) and failure (class F) – and two outcome classes (loss and end-stage kidney disease)
- OD – Opposition Division at EPO
- OP – Oral Proceedings – kind of like last remarks in a courtroom before verdict
- PHADIA – Originally sweidsh company (now owned by USbases Thermo Fisher) holder of ancient GAL patent
- SEPSIS in laymans terms – blood poisoning
- TRIAGE: Inverness POC Analyzer system (blood sampling)
- TRIAG: The patent issued by EPO to BioPorto (november 2011) covering injury as a result of physical injury
- TURBIDEMETRY – technique where the cloudiness of a solution in which the amount of transmitted light is measured with a spectrophotometer
- USPTO – the US Patent and Trade Organisation (Organ handling patentissues in the US)
- WERFEN GROUP, private held company that owns Instrumentation Laboratury http://www.werfengroup.com/The-Group.aspx
- XIGRIS – therapy in connection with severe sepsis (withdrawn from market late 2011)
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