Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin-guided risk assessment for major adverse kidney events after open-heart surgery.

2018-09

Albert, Christian

Albert, Annemarie

Bellomo, Rinaldo

Kropf, Siegfried

Devarajan, Prasad

Westphal, Sabine

Baraki, Hassina

Kutschka, Ingo

Butter, Christian

Haase, Michael

Haase-Fielitz, Anja

acute kidney injury (AKI)

cardiac surgery

major adverse kidney events (MAKE)

neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL)

risk prediction

Journal Article

10.2217/bmm-2018-0071

To assess weather doctors' clinical risk-assessment for major adverse kidney events (MAKE) and acute kidney injury (AKI) after open-heart surgery would improve when being informed about neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) test result at ICU admission. Clinical risk-assessment for MAKE and AKI were performed with and without providing NGAL test result and compared in an exploratory- and a validation-cohort using reclassification metrics, exemplary category-free net reclassification improvement (cfNRI). Exploratory cohort: doctors' prediction of MAKE (cfNRI = 0.750 [0.130-1.370]; p = 0.018) and AKI (cfNRI = 0.565 [0.001-1.129]; p = 0.049) improved being provided with NGAL test information. This finding was confirmed in the validation-cohort (MAKE cfNRI = 0.930 [0.188-1.672]; p = 0.014) and the combined-cohort (MAKE: cfNRI = 0.847 [0.371-1.323], p < 0.001); AKI: cfNRI = 0.468 [0.099-0.836; p = 0.013]). Improvements mostly generated from correctly reclassifying patients who not developed events (p < 0.001). Biomarker informed risk-assessment is superior in predicting MAKE and AKI after open-heart surgery.

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Biomarkers in medicine 2018; 12(9): 975-985

Biomarkers in medicine