Background Contrast induced acute kidney injury （CIAKI） is an important complication in the use of iodinated contrast media （CM）. Our study was to evaluate the neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin （NGAL） a...Background Contrast induced acute kidney injury （CIAKI） is an important complication in the use of iodinated contrast media （CM）. Our study was to evaluate the neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin （NGAL） and cystatin C for early diagnosis of CIAKI. Methods The patients with established or suspected coronary artery disease （CAD） with the estimated glomerular filtration rate （eGFR） was more than 30 ml·min^-1·1.73 m^-2 and nor more than 90 ml·min^-1·1.73 m^-2 were continuously enrolled. The blood samples of the first 50 patients were obtained before and at 2, 4, 8, 24 and 48 hours after procedure to identify the time points at which the biomarkers reached peaks and at which the blood samples of the rest of patients were obtained. The plasma NGAL and cystatin C measure used enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay （ELISA） kit. The diagnostic characteristics of absolute and relative increasing NGAL and cystatin C for CIAKI were evaluated. Results Total 311 patients were enrolled, among whom 39 （12.5%） developed CIAKI. Plasma NGAL increased at 2 hours and reached peak at 4 hours after procedure, while plasma cystatin C increased at 2 hours and reached peak at 24 hours after procedure. Thus, we determine rational point of time at 4 hours for NGAL and at 24 hours after procedure for cystatin C, respectively. The plasma NGAL at 4 hours after CM exposure showed largest area under curve （AUC） of 0.662 （95% confidence interval （CI）： 0.565-0.758, P=0.002） with 51.5% sensitivity and 80.6% of specificity. The relative increasing 25% of NGAL showed the best sensitivity and specificity of 0.872 and 0.808, respectively, with maximum Youden index of 0.680, while cystatin C with relative increasing more than 25% had 76.9% of sensitivity and 81.2% of specificity. Combined two biomarkers might get more than 90% of specificity. Conclusions Single measurement of NGAL or cystatin C had poor sensitivity and specificity; however, the relative increasing 25% of NGAL at 4 hours after CM exposure demonstrated higher diagnostic values for CIAKI. Combining relative increasing plasma NGAL with relative increasing plasma cystatin C might perform better for early diagnosis of CIAKI.展开更多
Background Acute kidney injury(AKI)is common in critically ill children with significant mortality and morbidity.Serum creatinine is an insensitive and late biomarker compared to newly proposed AKI biomarkers.Methods ...Background Acute kidney injury(AKI)is common in critically ill children with significant mortality and morbidity.Serum creatinine is an insensitive and late biomarker compared to newly proposed AKI biomarkers.Methods Prospective study in pediatric intensive care unit(PICU)over three months to compare between serum cystatin-C(s-Cys-C)and urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin(uNGAL)as AKI biomarkers at multiple time points with pediatric risk,injury,failure,loss,end-stage renal disease(pRIFLE)classification in diagnosing AKI.Results Forty children were recruited.Of these 40 children,22 developed AKI according to pRIFLE criteria.There was no significant difference between AKI and non-AKI in age(P=0.29).Post cardiac surgery,renal insult was the main cause of AKI(27.3%).There was a twofold increased risk of incident AKI in those patients with high baseline uNGAL at PICU admission and almost a fourfold increased risk in patients with high baseline s-Cys-C at PICU admission.uNGAL levels were highly predictive of AKI during the follow-up period[area under the curve(AUC)=0.76,95%confidence interval(CI)0.61-0.92].The cutoff point with the highest correctly classified proportion was 223 ng/mL(≥12 centiles)which correctly predict 80.0%patients with AKI,with a corresponding sensitivity of 72.7%and a specificity of 89.9%.AUC for s-Cys-C was 0.86(95%CI 0.75-0.97),and the highest correctly classified proportion was 1009μg/L(≥13 centiles);75%of patients with AKI,with a corresponding sensitivity of 63.6%and a specificity of 88.9%.Conclusion uNGAL and s-Cys-C predicts AKI early in critically ill children.展开更多
Background： Majority of the research on cardiac arrest （CA） have focused on post-CA brain injury and myocardial dysfunction, the renal dysfunction and acute kidney injury （AKI） in other critical illnesses after C...Background： Majority of the research on cardiac arrest （CA） have focused on post-CA brain injury and myocardial dysfunction, the renal dysfunction and acute kidney injury （AKI） in other critical illnesses after CA have not been well described. This study was designed to assess AKI with renal Doppler and novel AK1 biomarkers in a swine model of ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest （VFCA）. Methods： Thirty healthy piglets were divided into VFCA group （17 = 22） and Sham group （n = 8） in a blinded manner. Mean arterial pressure, heart rate. and cardiac output were recorded continuously. Cardiac arrest （CA） was induced by programmed electric stimulation in the VFCA group, and then cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed. Twenty piglets returned of spontaneous circulation （ROSC） and received intensive care. Blood and urine samples were collected for AKI biomarkers testing, and Color Doppler flow imaging was performed at baseline, 6 h, 12 h, and 24 11. respectively after ROSC. At ROSC 24 h, the animals were sacrificed and a semi-quantitative evaluation of pathologic kidney injury was performed. Results： In the VFCA group, corrected resistive index （cRl） increased from 0.47 ± 0.03 to 0.64 ± 0.06, and pulsatility index （PI） decreased from 0.82 ± 0.03 to 0.68 ± 0.04 after ROSC. Cystatin C （CysC） in both serum and urine samples increased at ROSC 6 h, but neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin （NGAL） in serum increased to 5.34 ± 1.68 ng/ml at ROSC 6 h, and then decreased to 3.16 ± 0.69 ng/ml at ROSC 24 h while CysC increasing constantly. According to the renal histopathology, 18 of 20 animals suffered from kidney injury. The grade of renal injury was highly correlated with RI, cRI, NGAL, and CysC. Linear regression equation was established： Grade of renal injury = 0.002× serum CysC ＋ 6.489 × PI ＋ 4.544 × cRI - 8.358 （r^2 = 0.698, F = 18.506, P 〈 0.001）. Conclusions： AKI is common in post-CA syndrome. Renal Doppler and novel AKI biomarkers in serum and urine are of significant importance as early predictors of post-CA AKI.展开更多
基金This-study was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No. 81100198）.
文摘Background Contrast induced acute kidney injury （CIAKI） is an important complication in the use of iodinated contrast media （CM）. Our study was to evaluate the neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin （NGAL） and cystatin C for early diagnosis of CIAKI. Methods The patients with established or suspected coronary artery disease （CAD） with the estimated glomerular filtration rate （eGFR） was more than 30 ml·min^-1·1.73 m^-2 and nor more than 90 ml·min^-1·1.73 m^-2 were continuously enrolled. The blood samples of the first 50 patients were obtained before and at 2, 4, 8, 24 and 48 hours after procedure to identify the time points at which the biomarkers reached peaks and at which the blood samples of the rest of patients were obtained. The plasma NGAL and cystatin C measure used enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay （ELISA） kit. The diagnostic characteristics of absolute and relative increasing NGAL and cystatin C for CIAKI were evaluated. Results Total 311 patients were enrolled, among whom 39 （12.5%） developed CIAKI. Plasma NGAL increased at 2 hours and reached peak at 4 hours after procedure, while plasma cystatin C increased at 2 hours and reached peak at 24 hours after procedure. Thus, we determine rational point of time at 4 hours for NGAL and at 24 hours after procedure for cystatin C, respectively. The plasma NGAL at 4 hours after CM exposure showed largest area under curve （AUC） of 0.662 （95% confidence interval （CI）： 0.565-0.758, P=0.002） with 51.5% sensitivity and 80.6% of specificity. The relative increasing 25% of NGAL showed the best sensitivity and specificity of 0.872 and 0.808, respectively, with maximum Youden index of 0.680, while cystatin C with relative increasing more than 25% had 76.9% of sensitivity and 81.2% of specificity. Combined two biomarkers might get more than 90% of specificity. Conclusions Single measurement of NGAL or cystatin C had poor sensitivity and specificity; however, the relative increasing 25% of NGAL at 4 hours after CM exposure demonstrated higher diagnostic values for CIAKI. Combining relative increasing plasma NGAL with relative increasing plasma cystatin C might perform better for early diagnosis of CIAKI.
基金funded by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology(KACST)under grand number 27-35-T-A(27-35-■■)。
文摘Background Acute kidney injury(AKI)is common in critically ill children with significant mortality and morbidity.Serum creatinine is an insensitive and late biomarker compared to newly proposed AKI biomarkers.Methods Prospective study in pediatric intensive care unit(PICU)over three months to compare between serum cystatin-C(s-Cys-C)and urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin(uNGAL)as AKI biomarkers at multiple time points with pediatric risk,injury,failure,loss,end-stage renal disease(pRIFLE)classification in diagnosing AKI.Results Forty children were recruited.Of these 40 children,22 developed AKI according to pRIFLE criteria.There was no significant difference between AKI and non-AKI in age(P=0.29).Post cardiac surgery,renal insult was the main cause of AKI(27.3%).There was a twofold increased risk of incident AKI in those patients with high baseline uNGAL at PICU admission and almost a fourfold increased risk in patients with high baseline s-Cys-C at PICU admission.uNGAL levels were highly predictive of AKI during the follow-up period[area under the curve(AUC)=0.76,95%confidence interval(CI)0.61-0.92].The cutoff point with the highest correctly classified proportion was 223 ng/mL(≥12 centiles)which correctly predict 80.0%patients with AKI,with a corresponding sensitivity of 72.7%and a specificity of 89.9%.AUC for s-Cys-C was 0.86(95%CI 0.75-0.97),and the highest correctly classified proportion was 1009μg/L(≥13 centiles);75%of patients with AKI,with a corresponding sensitivity of 63.6%and a specificity of 88.9%.Conclusion uNGAL and s-Cys-C predicts AKI early in critically ill children.
基金This research was supported by a grant from the Natural Science Foundation of China （No. 81372025）.
文摘Background： Majority of the research on cardiac arrest （CA） have focused on post-CA brain injury and myocardial dysfunction, the renal dysfunction and acute kidney injury （AKI） in other critical illnesses after CA have not been well described. This study was designed to assess AKI with renal Doppler and novel AK1 biomarkers in a swine model of ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest （VFCA）. Methods： Thirty healthy piglets were divided into VFCA group （17 = 22） and Sham group （n = 8） in a blinded manner. Mean arterial pressure, heart rate. and cardiac output were recorded continuously. Cardiac arrest （CA） was induced by programmed electric stimulation in the VFCA group, and then cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed. Twenty piglets returned of spontaneous circulation （ROSC） and received intensive care. Blood and urine samples were collected for AKI biomarkers testing, and Color Doppler flow imaging was performed at baseline, 6 h, 12 h, and 24 11. respectively after ROSC. At ROSC 24 h, the animals were sacrificed and a semi-quantitative evaluation of pathologic kidney injury was performed. Results： In the VFCA group, corrected resistive index （cRl） increased from 0.47 ± 0.03 to 0.64 ± 0.06, and pulsatility index （PI） decreased from 0.82 ± 0.03 to 0.68 ± 0.04 after ROSC. Cystatin C （CysC） in both serum and urine samples increased at ROSC 6 h, but neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin （NGAL） in serum increased to 5.34 ± 1.68 ng/ml at ROSC 6 h, and then decreased to 3.16 ± 0.69 ng/ml at ROSC 24 h while CysC increasing constantly. According to the renal histopathology, 18 of 20 animals suffered from kidney injury. The grade of renal injury was highly correlated with RI, cRI, NGAL, and CysC. Linear regression equation was established： Grade of renal injury = 0.002× serum CysC ＋ 6.489 × PI ＋ 4.544 × cRI - 8.358 （r^2 = 0.698, F = 18.506, P 〈 0.001）. Conclusions： AKI is common in post-CA syndrome. Renal Doppler and novel AKI biomarkers in serum and urine are of significant importance as early predictors of post-CA AKI.
