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01-12-2019 | Acute Kidney Injury | Letter
NephroCheck: should we consider urine osmolality?
Authors:
Alberto Noto, Andrea Cortegiani, Antonio David
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 1/2019
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Excerpt
Early detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) is challenging due to the risk of morbidity and mortality and a direct impact on patients’ management [
1]. The diagnosis relies on the changes of serum creatinine and urine output [
2], which are the main markers of kidney function. Recently, Astute Medical introduced the NephroCheck, a test that allows a bedside analysis of two biomarkers of renal damage implicated in G1 cell-cycle arrest: tissue inhibitor metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2) and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-7 (IGFBP-7) [
3]. The combination of these two biomarkers led to a new score (AKIRisk™). An AKIRisk™ score > 0.3 identifies patients at risk of developing AKI with sensitivity and specificity of 92% and 46%, respectively; increasing the cutoff to 2.0, the sensitivity is 46% and the specificity is 95% [
4]. The AKIRisk™ reference interval in healthy humans ranges from 0.04 to 2.22. A possible reason for this wide range could be that the score is not taking into account urine concentration. …