Urinary Biomarkers and Renal Recovery in Critically Ill Patients with Renal Support

• Published in: Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology Vol. 6; no. 8; pp. 1815 - 1823
• Main Authors: Srisawat, Nattachai, Wen, Xiaoyan, Lee, Minjae, Kong, Lan, Elder, Michele, Carter, Melinda, Unruh, Mark, Finkel, Kevin, Vijayan, Anitha, Ramkumar, Mohan, Paganini, Emil, Singbartl, Kai, Palevsky, Paul M, Kellum, John A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society of Nephrology 01.08.2011
• Series: Original Articles
• Subjects: Acute Kidney Injury - physiopathology; Acute Kidney Injury - therapy; Acute Kidney Injury - urine; Acute-Phase Proteins - urine; Adult; Aged; Biomarkers - urine; Chi-Square Distribution; Creatinine - urine; Critical Illness; Cystatin C - urine; Female; Hepatocyte Growth Factor - urine; Humans; Interleukin-18 - urine; Kidney - physiopathology; Lipocalin-2; Lipocalins - urine; Logistic Models; Male; Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 - urine; Middle Aged; Original; Predictive Value of Tests; Prospective Studies; Proto-Oncogene Proteins - urine; Recovery of Function; Renal Replacement Therapy; ROC Curve; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; United States
• ISSN: 1555-9041; 1555-905X
• DOI: 10.2215/CJN.11261210

Despite significant advances in the epidemiology of acute kidney injury (AKI), prognostication remains a major clinical challenge. Unfortunately, no reliable method to predict renal recovery exists. The discovery of biomarkers to aid in clinical risk prediction for recovery after AKI would represent a significant advance over current practice. We conducted the Biological Markers of Recovery for the Kidney study as an ancillary to the Acute Renal Failure Trial Network study. Urine samples were collected on days 1, 7, and 14 from 76 patients who developed AKI and received renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the intensive care unit. We explored whether levels of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL), urinary hepatocyte growth factor (uHGF), urinary cystatin C (uCystatin C), IL-18, neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin/matrix metalloproteinase-9, and urine creatinine could predict subsequent renal recovery. We defined renal recovery as alive and free of dialysis at 60 days from the start of RRT. Patients who recovered had higher uCystatin C on day 1 (7.27 versus 6.60 ng/mg·creatinine) and lower uHGF on days 7 and 14 (2.97 versus 3.48 ng/mg·creatinine; 2.24 versus 3.40 ng/mg·creatinine). For predicting recovery, decreasing uNGAL and uHGF in the first 14 days was associated with greater odds of renal recovery. The most predictive model combined relative changes in biomarkers with clinical variables and resulted in an area under the receiver-operator characteristic curve of 0.94. We showed that a panel of urine biomarkers can augment clinical risk prediction for recovery after AKI.