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A Multibiomarker-Based Model for Estimating the Risk of Septic Acute Kidney Injury. Crit Care Med 2015 Aug;43(8):1646-53

Date

05/12/2015

Pubmed ID

25962083

Pubmed Central ID

PMC4667777

DOI

10.1097/CCM.0000000000001079

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84942509173 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   25 Citations

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The development of acute kidney injury in patients with sepsis is associated with worse outcomes. Identifying those at risk for septic acute kidney injury could help to inform clinical decision making. We derived and tested a multibiomarker-based model to estimate the risk of septic acute kidney injury in children with septic shock.

DESIGN: Candidate serum protein septic acute kidney injury biomarkers were identified from previous transcriptomic studies. Model derivation involved measuring these biomarkers in serum samples from 241 subjects with septic shock obtained during the first 24 hours of admission and then using a Classification and Regression Tree approach to estimate the probability of septic acute kidney injury 3 days after the onset of septic shock, defined as at least two-fold increase from baseline serum creatinine. The model was then tested in a separate cohort of 200 subjects.

SETTING: Multiple PICUs in the United States.

INTERVENTIONS: None other than standard care.

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The decision tree included a first-level decision node based on day 1 septic acute kidney injury status and five subsequent biomarker-based decision nodes. The area under the curve for the tree was 0.95 (CI95, 0.91-0.99), with a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 88%. The tree was superior to day 1 septic acute kidney injury status alone for estimating day 3 septic acute kidney injury risk. In the test cohort, the tree had an area under the curve of 0.83 (0.72-0.95), with a sensitivity of 85% and a specificity of 77% and was also superior to day 1 septic acute kidney injury status alone for estimating day 3 septic acute kidney injury risk.

CONCLUSIONS: We have derived and tested a model to estimate the risk of septic acute kidney injury on day 3 of septic shock using a novel panel of biomarkers. The model had very good performance in a test cohort and has test characteristics supporting clinical utility and further prospective evaluation.

Author List

Wong HR, Cvijanovich NZ, Anas N, Allen GL, Thomas NJ, Bigham MT, Weiss SL, Fitzgerald J, Checchia PA, Meyer K, Shanley TP, Quasney M, Hall M, Gedeit R, Freishtat RJ, Nowak J, Raj SS, Gertz S, Dawson E, Howard K, Harmon K, Lahni P, Frank E, Hart KW, Lindsell CJ

Author

Rainer G. Gedeit MD Associate Chief Medical Officer in the Children's Administration department at Children's Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Acute Kidney Injury
Biomarkers
Child
Child, Preschool
Decision Trees
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric
Kidney Function Tests
Male
Matrix Metalloproteinase 8
Models, Theoretical
Myeloblastin
Risk Assessment
Sensitivity and Specificity
Sepsis
Serine Endopeptidases
United States