scholarly journals Cystatin C at Admission in the Intensive Care Unit Predicts Mortality among Elderly Patients

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida Dalboni ◽  
Daniel de Oliveira Beraldo ◽  
Beata Marie Redublo Quinto ◽  
Rosângela Blaya ◽  
Roberto Narciso ◽  
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Introduction. Cystatin C has been used in the critical care setting to evaluate renal function. Nevertheless, it has also been found to correlate with mortality, but it is not clear whether this association is due to acute kidney injury (AKI) or to other mechanism. Objective. To evaluate whether serum cystatin C at intensive care unit (ICU) entry predicts AKI and mortality in elderly patients. Materials and Methods. It was a prospective study of ICU elderly patients without AKI at admission. We evaluated 400 patients based on normality for serum cystatin C at ICU entry, of whom 234 (58%) were selected and 45 (19%) developed AKI. Results. We observed that higher serum levels of cystatin C did not predict AKI ( versus  mg/L; ). However, it was an independent predictor of mortality, H.R. = 6.16 (95% CI 1.46–26.00; ), in contrast with AKI, which was not associated with death. In the ROC curves, cystatin C also provided a moderate and significant area (0.67; ) compared to AKI (0.47; ) to detect death. Conclusion. We demonstrated that higher cystatin C levels are an independent predictor of mortality in ICU elderly patients and may be used as a marker of poor prognosis.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Pei ◽  
Guangping Zhou ◽  
Pengfei Wang ◽  
Fang'e Shi ◽  
Xiaolu Ma ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) was a common and critical complication of sepsis, and is associated with unacceptable morbidity and mortality. Current diagnostic criteria for AKI was insensitive for early detection. Novel biomarkers included cystatin C, KIM-1, NGAL, klotho and FGF-23 which can predict AKI earlier may allow immediate interventions. We aimed to determine the diagnostic performance of these biomarkers for detecting AKI in sepsis patients.Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted from May 2018 and November 2020, enrolling sequential 162 sepsis patients. AKI’s definition was according to 2012 KDIGO criteria and we divided patients into non-AKI (n=102) and AKI (n=60) groups. Serum levels of several AKI biomarkers were detected by ELISA. The relationship between biomarker levels on admission of AKI were analyzed and discrimination performances comparison were performed.Results: AKI incidence was up to 37.0% (60/162) during hospitalization. Compared with non-AKI group, both serum cystatin C, KIM-1, NGAL and FGF-23 were significantly elevated at admission in septic AKI patients. The areas under the receiver operating curves demonstrated that serum cystatin C had modest discriminative powers for predicting AKI after sepsis, and cystatin C combined with serum creatinine in the prediction of septic AKI increased the diagnostic sensitivity prominently.Conclusion: Serum cystatin C, KIM-1, NGAL and FGF-23 levels are both increased in septic AKI patients. Our study provides reliable evidence that cystatin C solely and combined with serum creatinine may accurately and sensitively predict septic AKI when patients on admission.


2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 2314-2317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annick A. Royakkers ◽  
Jeroen van Suijlen ◽  
Lieuwe Hofstra ◽  
Michael Kuiper ◽  
Catherine Bouman ◽  
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Author(s):  
Itir Yegenaga ◽  
Fatih Kamis ◽  
Canan Baydemir ◽  
Elizade Erdem ◽  
Koray Celebi ◽  
...  

Aims The prevention of acute kidney injury can be lifesaving for the intensive care unit patients. However, conventional methods are not sufficient for the prediction of the risk of future acute kidney injury. In this study, the promising biomarker, neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, was compared with cystatin C as an indicator for the risk of future acute kidney injury. Methods One hundred and eighty-three adult patients without chronic kidney disease or renal replacement therapy were included in this study. The plasma and urine concentrations of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin and cystatin C were assessed on the second day after intensive care unit admission and were followed for seven days to monitor the development of acute kidney injury. Acute kidney injury diagnosis was based on the risk, injury, failure, loss, end-stage renal failure criteria. Results Thirty-four per cent of the patients had acute kidney injury; 17 patients who did not fulfil criteria at the beginning, developed acute kidney injury from days 3 to 7 after admission. The mean serum creatinine on admission did not significantly differ between this and control groups (0.72 ± 0.20 and 0.83 ± 0.21; P = 0.060); however, the serum and urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin concentrations on the second day were significantly different (median: 75.69 [54.18–91.18] and 123.68 [90.89–166.31], P = 0.001; and median: 17.60 [8.56–34.04] and 61.37 [24.59–96.63], P = 0.001). Notably, the 48-h serum cystatin C concentration did not differ. Conclusion Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin concentrations in the urine and serum on the second day of intensive care unit admission could be used to predict the development of acute kidney injury in the following three to seven days in the intensive care unit; however, the cystatin C concentration did not have predictive value.


2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinzhuan Chen ◽  
Jianqing Lin ◽  
Caizhu Lin

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of specific biomarkers to predict acute kidney injury (AKI) after partial nephrectomy. Methods: A prospective study of 89 patients undergoing partial nephrectomy was conducted in the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University. The patients were divided into two groups according to AKI status: an AKI group and non-AKI group. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves were generated and the areas under the curve (AUCs) were compared. Results: Twenty-eight subjects (31.5%) developed AKI while sixty-one subjects (68.5%) did not. Vascular clamping time in the AKI group was longer than that in the non-AKI group (29 ± 17 min vs. 24 ± 9 min, P = 0.042). Eight patients (28.6%) received blood infusion in the AKI group compared with five patients (8.2%) in the non-AKI group (P = 0.021). The area under ROC curve for AKI prediction was 0.792 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.697 to 0.888, P < 0.000] for serum cystatin C 24 hours after surgery and 0.756 (95% CI 0.656 to 0.857, P < 0.000) for serum cystatin C 48 hours after surgery. Multivariate regression analysis showed transfusion [Hazard ratio (HR) 3.712, P = 0.044] and 24 hours serum cystatin C (HR 41.594, P = 0.001) correlated with AKI. Conclusions: Postoperative serum cystatin C may be an early predictor for AKI after partial nephrectomy. Transfusion may be an independent risk factor for AKI after partial nephrectomy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiola de Oliveira Paes-Leme ◽  
Eliana M. Souza ◽  
Paulo Ricardo Oliveira Paes ◽  
Maderleine Geisa Gomes ◽  
Felipe Santos Muniz ◽  
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Critically ill hospitalized dogs are subject to certain complications, being acute kidney injury (AKI) a common one. Early diagnosis is crucial, and Cystatin C (CysC) is a reliable and early biomarker. The International Society of Renal Interest (IRIS) states that AKI severity can be assessed by mild changes in creatinine serum levels or reduction of urine output that cannot be considered biomarkers of renal injury but failure or insufficiency. Twenty-eight dogs admitted to the Intensive Care Unit under risk factors for the development of AKI were evaluated. Blood samples were collected for determination of sCr and CysC at admission and after 24, 48, and 72 h. Urine output was measured by daily monitoring, measured by collection in a closed system. The results showed the incidence of AKI was 67.9% based on the IRIS criteria and 78.6% based on cystatin C in critically ill patients' dogs. The measurement of serum cystatin C immediately on admission to the ICU was superior in the early identification of patients with AKI when compared to the IRIS classification and serum creatinine in critically ill dogs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 374-381
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Pei ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Xue Mao ◽  
Jihong Zhu

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are at high risk for acute kidney injury (AKI). Novel biomarkers that can predict AKI after AMI may facilitate immediate interventions. Recently, cystatin C, neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), and klotho have been established as novel AKI biomarkers. However, their effects have not been studied in patients presenting with AMI. In this study, we will measure the serum levels of these three biomarkers to find reliable biomarkers for early diagnosis of AKI in AMI patients. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> This prospective observational cohort study was conducted between May 2016 and November 2017. A total of 285 consecutive patients with AMI were enrolled. The study was approved by the institutional review board of Peking University People’s Hospital (No. 2016PHB 042-01). AKI was defined according to the KDIGO criteria in 2012. At admission, the clinical data of patients was collected and serum levels of several AKI biomarkers, including cystatin C, NGAL, and klotho, were measured by ELISA. The relationship between biomarker levels of AKI were analyzed and their discrimination performances were compared. <b><i>Results:</i></b> AKI incidence was 17.5% (50/285) during hospitalization. Compared to patients without AKI, the AKI group had higher mortality (20.0% vs. 0.4%,<i> p</i> &#x3c; 0.001) and tended to be older, had higher incidence of chronic kidney disease, severe cardiac function, more cardiac complications, larger doses of diuretics, and less use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blocker and statins. Moreover, AKI patients experienced an increase in serum cystatin C (3,709.2 ± 2,281.5 vs. 1,918.5 ± 1,140.6 ng/mL, <i>p</i> &#x3c; 0.001), NGAL (118.0 ± 70.3 vs. 91.8 ± 52.3 ng/mL, <i>p</i> = 0.003), and klotho (742.2 ± 497.4 vs. 470.3 ± 257.2 pg/mL, <i>p &#x3c;</i>0.001). Furthermore, the areas under the receiver operating curves demonstrated that serum cystatin C levels at admission had modest discriminative powers for predicting AKI after AMI compared with serum creatinine (0.899, 95% CI, 0.855–0.944 vs. 0.734, 95% CI, 0.649–0.819, <i>p &#x3c;</i>0.001). There was no difference between the discrimination performances of serum creatinine, NGAL, and klotho. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> Elevated cystatin C levels are associated with AKI in patients with AMI. This study provides reliable evidence that cystatin C levels may be superior to serum creatinine for predicting AKI after AMI at admission.


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