Active clinical trials for "Acute Kidney Injury"

This pilot study aims at investigating the relationship between intermittent hypoxemia (IH) and acute kidney injury (AKI) in preterm infants. AIM 1: Test the hypothesis that intermittent hypoxemia is associated kidney injury in preterm infants, as reflected by a rise in serum creatinine. AIM 2: Test the hypothesis that there is rise in acute kidney injury urinary biomarkers with increased intermittent hypoxemia.

Acute kidney injury requiring dialysis (AKI-D) has increased considerably over last 15 years. The national rise in incidence of acute kidney injury has several ramifications in terms of cost to the health services resulting not only from cost of therapy but also from the later consequences of AKI from development of chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. Mortality in patients with AKI-D is very high and remains unchanged in the last decade in England. In recent years it is becoming clearer that even the national incidence and case-fatality of AKI is influenced by regional variation. In last three decades, many studies have reported unwarranted variation in a wide range of procedures, from the performance of cesarean section and coronary angiography to the treatment of early prostate cancer, stroke, and the ailments of the chronically ill. In surgical care there is evidence that the variation may be driven by forces other than patient illness and medical appropriateness such as access to care and other socioeconomic factors, provider capacity of the local system, medical malpractice pressure, and distinctly different local practices. Despite the public health burden of AKI-D in England, it is unclear if regional variation exists in AKI-D. Variation in incidence of AKI-D in different region of a country may be influenced by patient and physician demographics of the regions, physician preferences or the nature of the hospital serving the population. To reduce the incidence and case fatality of AKI-D, it is imperative to understand if variations in incidence and case-fatality in AKI-D exists in different regions of the country. To address this gap in knowledge, the investigators combined national database of hospital admissions and discharge with census data from office of national statistic over a period of fifteen years to determine the trend in change in the regional incidence and case fatality of AKI requiring dialysis in England. The investigators also explored various determinants of the regional variation in the dialysis requiring AKI. Methods Data source The investigators extracted 2000-2015 data from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), a data warehouse containing details of all admissions, outpatient appointments, and A&E attendances at National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England. Definitions The investigators identified all cases of AKI by using validated International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes in any diagnoses codes, in keeping with the objective of the study. Patients with any of the following codes were included: N17.0 for acute renal failure (ARF) with tubular necrosis, N17.1 for ARF with acute cortical necrosis, N17.2 for ARF with medullary necrosis, N17.8 for other ARF and N17.9 for ARF, unspecified. ARF has been replaced by new terminology, AKI, but due to lack of ICD10 codes for AKI, the investigators used the ICD10 codes for ARF and henceforth, will be referred to as AKI in this study. The investigators also extracted all available secondary diagnosis and up to 24 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Interventions and Procedures, 4th revision (OPCS-4) codes. To identify patients with AKI-D, the investigators included OPCS code of X40.3 for hemodialysis or X40.4 for hemofiltration in any of the 25 procedures. Patients with chronic kidney disease stage 5 (CKD-5) starting chronic dialysis and end stage renal disease (ESRD) with ICD-10 code of N18.5 and N18.6 respectively were excluded. The investigators also excluded OPCS-4 codes for Arteriovenous fistula (L74.2) or Arteriovenous graft (L74.3) during the inpatient admission. HES data stratifies patient location into 16 different regions. The geographic regions in England were stratified as per the Office of National Statistic (ONS) into nine regions: North East, North West, Yorkshire and Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West. Patients' in geographical locations outside these nine regions were excluded. Patients who were admitted, but were not discharged during the study period will not be included in the study. The investigators also obtained completed hospital discharges from each region to estimate the effect of hospitalization on AKI-D incidence rates, along with number of nephrology consultants in each region from 2000 to 2015 from Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) in the annual census of medical and dental staff in the NHS. The investigators will also obtain linkage with ONS and UK Renal Registry (UKRR) for long-term patient and renal outcomes. To obtain population incidence of AKI-D for each region, mid-year population of the region in each year from 2000 to 2015 was obtained from the ONS.

In the present study, 126 patients were enrolled (23 control, 38 non-septic and 65 septic patients). Blood samples were collected from septic patients at the intensive care unit (ICU) at three time points (T1-3): T1: within 12h after admission; T2: second day morning; T3: third day morning. Sampling points for non-septic ICU patients were T1 and T3. Exclusion criteria were patients under 18 years of age, unobtainable consent, end-stage renal disease requiring chronic dialysis or kidney transplantation and patients with malignancies needing palliative care. Not more than one sample (venous blood) was collected from control patients. Plasma presepsin levels were determined by an automated chemiluminescence-based Point of Care instrument while serum gelsolin levels were measured using an automated immune turbidimetric assay. Plasma presepsin concentrations were expressed as pg/mL, while serum gelsolin levels were expressed as mg/L. Data were compared with laboratory and clinical parameters. Patients were categorized by the Sepsis-3 definitions and 10-day mortality data were investigated. Presepsin:gelsolin ratio was evaluated in major sepsis-related organ dysfunctions including hemodynamic disturbances, respiratory insufficiency and acute kidney injury (AKI).

Critically ill patients are prone to develop acute kidney injury due to sepsis itself and by administration of potentially nephrotoxic antibiotic treatment (vancomycin or gentamicin). Blood-specific miRNA levels associated with renal tubular damage change in patients treated with vancomycin or gentamicin compared to septic patients treated with other antimicrobials.

The objective of this study was to assess the changes in thyroid hormones and its activity during CRRT in patients with Acute Kidney Injury.

Several studies suggested that ARDS may have important adverse effects on renal function, but few studies have specifically addressed the risk factors of AKI and its impact on the outcome in theses patients.

Cardiac Surgery and Acute Kidney Failure (AKI) post Surgery: AKI is a frequent complication in the immediate aftermath of cardiac surgery with an incidence varying from 5 to 40%. KDIGO criteria (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) are used to define the AKI in cardiac surgery because of their validated prognostic value in this patient population. The occurrence of a postoperative AKI, even of low severity, is accompanied by a significant increase in the duration of hospitalization and mortality. The AKI risk factors in cardiac surgery are related to the precarious clinical conditions of the patient before the surgery, to the complex surgical context, to the surgical procedures particularly the duration of extracorporeal circulation (ECC) greater than 120 min and the occurrence of a postoperative circulatory insufficiency. AKI and inflammatory response: The mechanisms involved in postoperative AKI in cardiac surgery, are low cardiac output, ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI), mechanical intravascular hemolysis, hypothermia, and activation of the neuroendocrine system by the ECC. In addition, ECC triggers a secondary inflammatory response to blood contact with the ECC circuit and membranes. The secondary stimulation of immunocompetent cells accompanies secretion of many cytokines and proinflammatory mediators via the activation of nuclear transcription factors as the NFκB factor. Of the 50 000 ECC performed per year in France, about 25% of the patients develop a Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS). Although most often transient, SIRS can intensify and lead to a multi-visceral failure and to death, especially if the patient presents medical history of type 2 diabete. Increase of postoperative plasma cytokine levels has a positive predictive value on the occurrence of AKI and the risk of death. Priming of the NLRP3 inflammasome and post ECC inflammatory response: In addition to activation by nuclear transcription factors (NFκB), the inflammatory syndrome may develop secondarily to the activation of multi-protein platforms, called inflammasomes. The activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome has been particularly studied in humans because of its association with multiple chronic inflammatory pathologies, infectious and cardio-metabolic diseases. Its activation is the combination of intracellular receptors like NOD-like receptors (NLR) types, ASC-like adapter proteins and pro caspase-1. This assembly activates inflammatory caspases (caspase-1, in particular) responsible for the cleavage of pro-interleukins IL-1β and IL-18 in mature pro-inflammatory cytokines that participate in the orchestration of the inflammatory response. Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome requires prior priming which allows increase of NLRP3 and pro-cytokines IL1β and IL18 expressions. This priming is particularly intense in the presence of a mitochondrial dysfunction and of an increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS). Next, the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome may be secondary to the presence of danger signals from cellular damages, such as cellular and mitochondrial debris (including mitochondrial DNA) recognized by NLRP3 receptors. Thus, preoperative mitochondrial dysfunction and its postoperative aggravation by ECC due to IRI induced by ECC represents powerful signals ,of the NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Research hypothesis: The hypothesis is that the preoperative priming of the NLRP3 inflammasome by a preoperative mitochondrial dysfunction is a factor favoring the occurrence of postoperative AKI after cardiac surgery with ECC. For type 2 diabetic patients, the investigators think that preoperative mitochondrial dysfunction (mitochondrial respiration abnormalities and hyperpermeability of mitochondrial membranes) is accentuated worsening IRI induced by the ECC. This increases postoperative release of cells and mitochondrial debris that maintain the activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome, exacerbating the inflammatory response and favoring the occurrence of AKI.

The renal Doppler resistive index (RRI) is a noninvasive tool that has been used to assess renal perfusion in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. It is associated with the occurrence of acute kidney injury (AKI). Many parameters have been described as influential on the values of renal RI. Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion were shown to be able to increase renal oxygenation in animal model, whereas crystalloid resuscitation did not. We sought to describe the different effect of crystalloids infusion and RBC transfusion on renal blood flow, as evaluated with doppler ultrasound

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in critically ill patients. Based on the sensitive KDIGO criteria, the incidence of AKI on ICU varies between 30-60 %. These large variations of incidence of AKI are due to different baseline characteristics of studied patients, the length of observation period, use of creatinine criteria only or use of creatinine and urine output criteria. Furthermore, back estimation of baseline creatinine instead of measured creatinine in patients with missing laboratory values may lead to overestimation of AKI severity and outcomes. Major surgery, trauma, infection, sepsis or a complication of severe illness can lead to an abrupt decrease in glomerular filtration in critically ill patients. Such episode of AKI is associated with short term adverse effects such as fluid overload, electrolyte imbalance, acid-base derangements, immune dysfunction, coagulation abnormalities and alterations in mental status. Additionally, AKI in critically ill patients leads to prolonged ICU length of stay, increase in morbidity and mortality as well as higher costs. Multiple large studies found, after correction for potential confounders, that AKI was independently associated with worse outcomes. Moderate and severe AKI stages were associated with 2.9 - 6.9 fold increased in-hospital mortality (3). Increasing AKI severity in ICU patients was not only associated with increased mortality, AKI patients had also worse renal function at the time of hospital discharge. The individual condition leading to AKI in combination with increased susceptibility to AKI may significantly influence outcome. Indeed, current data from many studies show that mortality from AKI differs in various clinical settings. However, there are not enough data on different types of surgery and their effect on AKI yet. The aim of our epidemiological study is to investigate the occurrence and outcomes of AKI in different types of surgery in postoperative ICU patients at the Vienna General Hospital.

The objectives of this study are to determine whether Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) with oXiris in patients with septic shock would improve clinical outcomes such as the sepsis-related organ failure assessment (SOFA) , hemodynamic, mortality compared CRRT with conventional membrane.