Features of the course of new coronaviral infection (COVID-19) in patients with acute kidney injury and end stage renal failure

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
N. V. Agranovich ◽  
L. I. Tkachenko ◽  
S. A. Knyshova ◽  
M. V. Titorenko ◽  
A. P. Lichacheva

BACKGROUND. In the modern era, COVID-19 is the biggest problem facing doctors and scientists around the world. SARSCоV-2 is a multisystem infection that is not limited to lung damage and has the immuno-mediated effect of negative effects on organs and systems, including the kidneys. To date, there is no precise understanding of the pathogenesis of nephrological disorders in patients with COVID-19. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are a group of particularly high risk of CO-VID-19 infection and high mortality in the development of the disease.THE AIM: to evaluate the features of the course of a new coronavirus infection (COVID 19) in patients with acute kidney injury and terminal renal insufficiency.PATIENTS AND METHODS. The study of clinical, laboratory and instrumental parameters was carried out in 119 patients (67 men and 52 women) diagnosed with COVID-19. The average age of the patients was 63.1±1.7 years. All patients were divided into two groups: group 1 - patients with CKD and HD, group 2 - patients with newly diagnosed kidney damage against the background of coronavirus infection (COVID-19). Statistical data analysis was carried out using the software package "IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0" (USA) (Russified version).RESULTS. As a result of the study, it was found that in the clinical picture of COVID-19 patients suffering from CKD and undergoing hemodialysis, such a symptom as myalgia was noted 2 times more often, the percentage of saturation of arterial blood hemoglobin with oxygen (SaO2,%) was significantly lower compared to patients with newly diagnosed kidney damage on the background of infection. The duration of the temperature reaction during the disease was 5 times longer than in patients without CKD. Although the incidence of lung damage in patients of both groups was identical, mortality was significantly higher in the group of patients with CKD.CONCLUSION. In the patients examined by us, proteinuria, an increase in the level of nitrogenous metabolites, as well as D-dimers in both groups, are associated with increased mortality. Mortality in patients with CKD and HD was several times higher than in those without pathology of the urinary system. The severity of the patients' condition was primarily due to the symptoms of damage to the respiratory system, but the degree of renal dysfunction is undoubtedly an important prognostic value. Thus, monitoring the state of individual nephron structures in patients with CO-VID-19 is of great importance, and emergency nephroprotective measures may be crucial in the fight against cytokine storm.

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (28) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki Ryang Na ◽  
Hae Ri Kim ◽  
Youngrok Ham ◽  
Dae Eun Choi ◽  
Kang Wook Lee ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Natalie Ebert ◽  
Elke Schaeffner

Both acute and chronic states of kidney disease have considerable healthcare impact as they can produce enormous disease burden and costs. To classify chronic kidney disease into the CKD staging system, glomerular filtration rate as an index of kidney function, as well as albuminuria as a marker of kidney damage have to be assessed as correctly as possible. Misclassification is a serious concern due to the difficulties in precise GFR assessment and correct interpretation of results. Differentiating between pure senescence and true disease among older adults can be a delicate issue. To find the right renal replacement option for individuals that progress to end-stage renal disease can be challenging, and some older patients may even benefit from conservative care without dialysis. To prevent acute kidney injury as a frequent and potentially life-threatening complication, clinicians need to develop an understanding of the common vulnerability to kidney damage among older adults.


Author(s):  
Razvan Andrei CODEA ◽  
Mircea MIRCEAN ◽  
Sidonia Alina BOGDAN ◽  
Andras Laszlo NAGY ◽  
Alexandra BIRIS ◽  
...  

The identification of a suitable prevention method which facilitates limiting the deleterious effects of acute kidney injuries is highly required. In order to identify a proper treatment for acute kidney injuries, a suitable experimental model that replicates the structural, metabolic and inflammatory lesions that occur in the natural acute injured kidney is highly necessary. Intense urinary NAG activity can be found in a variety of renal disease such as toxic nephropathies, ischemic renal injury following cardiac surgery or renal transplantation but also in glomerular disease especially in diabetic nephropathy. Rises in urinary NAG enzyme activity strongly suggests tubular cell damage and support NAG enzyme as a biomarker of renal tubular injury. The aim of this paper is to obtain a stable in vivo acute kidney injury experimental model, in Wistar, rats and to evaluate the urinary activity of N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) enzyme, blood levels of urea and creatinine and microstructural renal alterations induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury respectively gentamicin nephrotoxicity. For this purpose we have used a rat experimental model. Adult male Wistar rats weighing 250-300 g were randomly divided into 3 groups with 8 rats in each group. Group 1 served as a model for the renal ischemia/reperfusion injury experiment, group 2 served for toxic kidney injury experimental model and group 3 served as control group. All individuals in both groups 1 and 2 presented marked elevations in blood urea and creatinine at the moment of euthanasia (day 3 for group 1 and day 9 for group 2) compared to the control group where biochemical values remained within normal limits. Urine analysis of both group 1 and 2 showed marked urinary NAG index activity which suggests acute tubular injury, suggestion confirmed by histological evaluation of the renal parenchyma sampled from this subjects


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Pevzner ◽  
Kirill Goryunov ◽  
Valentina Vtorushina ◽  
Vasily Popkov ◽  
Denis Silachev ◽  
...  

Abstract Background and Aims Neonatal kidney damage is a wide spread pathology, especially among preterm infants. Acute kidney injury (AKI) in newborns remains one of the most important problems because the features of neonatal nephrogenesis and physiology. The current clinical criteria for the diagnosis of AKI, including pediatric scales pRIFLE and nRIFLE, rely on glomerulal filtration rate (GFR), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and serum creatinine (SCr), which are the late biomarkers detectable only within days or weeks after kidney damage occurred, and therefore have limitations when used within the first days after birth. Therefore, sensitive and specific tests for early diagnostics of kidney injury are extremely needed in neonatology. Urine biomarkers appear to be promising for early diagnosis of AKI. Quite often renal pathologies result in markedly increased (or decreased) urinary excretion of a number of protein biomarkers, indicating subclinical tubular injury while conventional AKI signs are not manifested yet. The aim of this study was to determine clinical value of urine molecular biomarkers for the prediction of acute kidney injury in newborns. Method Urine samples from newborns with congenital malformation were collected on the 1st day after born, and then once a week until the 21th postnatal day. Urine samples were centrifuged, aliquoted and stored at –80°С until testing. The next urinary biomarkers were analyzed: calbindin 1, clusterin, IL-18, KIM-1, GST-π, MCP-1 and NGAL. Quantitative determination was performed with immunoassay kit Bio-Plex Pro™ RBM Human Kidney Toxicity Panel 1 (Bio-Rad Inc., USA) and Human NGAL ELISA kit (Invitrogen, Germany). Control group included five age-matched healthy infants. Results 8 of 20 patients showed a direct correlation of increased NGAL levels in urine (50-fold compared to control group) with high levels of C-reactive protein in the blood (3-10-fold rise above the reference level). NGAL is the most sensitive marker for assessing AKI or tubular damage. These 8 patients were further investigated for other urine biomarkers. The IL-18 level in urine was slightly increased in 4 patients. IL-18 is proposed to be a predictor for AKI severity and mortality in children with critical illness. KIM-1 has low basal expression in the normal kidney but its appearance is highly specific and sensitive sign for nephrotoxicity in proximal tubules. We observed the increase of KIM-1 urinary excretion for 7 patients. However, we discover the equal occurrence of decrease or increase of urine MCP-1 through studied patients. Elevated levels of urine MCP-1 were earlier observed in experimental maleate induced azotemia, LPS injection and in model of unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO). An increase of KIM-1 and/or MCP-1 urinary excretion is known to be associated with some risk of AKI development. We found 3-fold growth of urine clusterin in 7 children. It is noticed, that clusterin increased in damaged tubular cells during polycystic kidney disease and renal carcinoma. Additionally, we revealed 7-fold decrease of calbindin 1 in urine of 7 patients. Сalbindin 1 exclusively localized in the kidney distal nephron segment, and its decrease was discribed for models of UUO, glomerulonephritis and cisplatin nephropathy. GST-π protein is found in cells lining the lumen of the distal tubules and is elevated in the urine of patients with sepsis, independently of accompanied AKI. We also observed 10- to 20-fold rising of urine GST-π for all 8 NGAL-positive newborns. Conclusion The specificity, rate of increase, and non-invasive detection of urine markers studied in this work, make them indispensable in clinical practice. However, their use in neonatology is still experimental. We showed potential applicability of wide biomarker panel for early detection and prediction of AKI in newborns.


Author(s):  
O. Lavrenchuk

In this survey of contemporary foreign literature presents the results of recent studies on acute kidney damage in children. Present modern system of stratification by severity degrees ofacute kidney injury and their comparison (RIFLE and AKIN – criteria). For this reason recently there has been a great surge of interest in identifying biomarkers ofacute and chronic kidney injury which help to detect early pathological changes in kidneys, to differentiate the injury of different parts of the nephron, to accurately determine the stage of the process, to assess the severity of inflammation and fibrogenesis intensity. The most important new markers which are currently studied include KIM–1, VEGF–А, L–FABP, TGF–b1, NGAL and NAG. This review highlights the results of major recent studies in this area.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document