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  • Original Articles

    Urinary NGAL in patients with and without acute kidney injury in a cardiology intensive care unit

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2014;26(4):347-354

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    Urinary NGAL in patients with and without acute kidney injury in a cardiology intensive care unit

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2014;26(4):347-354

    DOI 10.5935/0103-507X.20140053

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    Objective:

    To assess the diagnostic and prognostic efficacy of urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in patients admitted to an intensive care unit.

    Methods:

    Longitudinal, prospective cohort study conducted in a cardiology intensive care unit. The participants were divided into groups with and without acute kidney injury and were followed from admission to the intensive care unit until hospital discharge or death. Serum creatinine, urine output and urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin were measured 24 and 48 hours after admission.

    Results:

    A total of 83 patients admitted to the intensive care unit for clinical reasons were assessed, most being male (57.8%). The participants were divided into groups without acute kidney injury (N=18), with acute kidney injury (N=28) and with severe acute kidney injury (N=37). Chronic diseases, mechanical ventilation and renal replacement therapy were more common in the groups with acute kidney injury and severe acute kidney injury, and those groups exhibited longer intensive care unit stay and hospital stay and higher mortality. Serum creatinine did not change significantly in the group with acute kidney injury within the first 24 hours of admission to the intensive care unit, although, urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin was high in the groups with acute kidney injury and severe acute kidney injury (p<0.001). Increased urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin was associated with death.

    Conclusion:

    An increase in urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin precedes variations in serum creatinine in patients with acute kidney injury and may be associated with death.

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    Renoprotective effect of statin: a ischemia-reperfusion animal model

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2010;22(3):245-249

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    Renoprotective effect of statin: a ischemia-reperfusion animal model

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2010;22(3):245-249

    DOI 10.1590/S0103-507X2010000300005

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    OBJECTIVE: Ischemic acute kidney injury (iLRA), with multifatorial cause, presents alarming morbidity and mortality. Statin, HMG-CoA inhibition reductase has shown a renoprotective effect, with antioxidant, antiinflamatory and vascular actions. The heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) can be involved in these pleitropic effects of statin on the renal function. This study was performed in order to evaluate if the renoprotective effect of the statin is a heme mechanism of protection in rats. METHODS: The ischemic model was reproduced by through clamping the bilateral renal pedicles for 30 minutes followed by reperfusion. Adult Wistar rats, weighting from 250-300g, were divided into the following groups: SHAM (control); Ischemia (30 minutes renal ischemia); Ischemia+Statin (sinvastatin 0.5mg/kg,orally (v.o.) for 3 days); Ischemia+Hemin (Hemin, 1.0mg/100g, intraperitoneal (i.p.), 24 hours before surgery); Ischemia+SnPP (SnPP 2μmol/kg, i.p., 24 hours before surgery ); Ischemia+Statin+Hemin; Ischemia+Statin+SnPP. RF (clearance of creatinine, Jaffé method), urinary peroxides (UP), urinary osmolality (UO) and immunohistochemical for ED-1 were evaluated. RESULTS: Results showed that sinvastatin ameliorated RF, urinary osmolality, reduced the UP excrection and the macrophage infiltration in rats submitted to renal ischemia. The inducer of HO-1 and its association with sinvastatin induced a similar pattern of improvement of renal function. CONCLUSION: the study confirmed the renoprotective effect of the statins on renal function, with antioxidant and antiinflamatory actions, and it suggests that this effect can have an interface with the heme system of renal protection.

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    Evaluation of the renal function in patients in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery: does AKIN classification predict acute kidney dysfunction?

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2009;21(1):25-31

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    Evaluation of the renal function in patients in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery: does AKIN classification predict acute kidney dysfunction?

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2009;21(1):25-31

    DOI 10.1590/S0103-507X2009000100004

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    OBJECTIVES: To identify the frequency of the Acute Kidney Injury and to compare the application of the AKIN classification with the separate use of the serum creatinine in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery. METHODS: This study was prospectively developed in a teaching and specialized research hospital in cardiology of the public health system of the state of São Paulo. Forty-four patients submitted to the elective cardiac surgery since the immediate post-surgical period up to the 2nd post-surgical period were followed. RESULTS: It was possible to verify that from the forty-four patients, 75% were hypertensive, 27% were diabetic and mostly were male (64%), with an average age of 55+16 years old. It was observed that advanced age and the elevated body mass index shows a significant correlation to renal dysfunction (p<0, 05). According to the AKIN classification, the urinary flow criterion identified more renal dysfunction than creatinine criterion. It was verified that the renal dysfunction occurred more frequently in the postsurgery period and the majority (82%) from the 63,6% of the patients which were submitted to the revascularization of the myocardium surgery. CONCLUSION: The majority of patients (75%) evolved initially with renal dysfunction signaled it mainly by the urinary flow criterion from the AKIN classification, a higher number compared to the separated creatinine. This fact confirms that the serum creatinine association with the urinary flow has a higher discriminatory performance for the early identification of this syndrome comparatively with the routinely use of the isolated creatinine.

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    Evaluation of the renal function in patients in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery: does AKIN classification predict acute kidney dysfunction?
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    Renal function of intensive care unit patients: plasma creatinine and urinary retinol-binding protein

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2008;20(4):385-393

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    Renal function of intensive care unit patients: plasma creatinine and urinary retinol-binding protein

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2008;20(4):385-393

    DOI 10.1590/S0103-507X2008000400011

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    OBJECTIVES: The early assessment of renal dysfunction using common markers does not provide either a sensitive or specific indication of renal dysfunction in critically ill patients. More specific and sensitive markers are desirable for the early detection of an initial renal pathophysiological process. Urinary retinol-binding protein could be an alternative method to early evaluation of renal function in these patients. METHODS: This study followed-up 100 critical care patients and assessed their clinical and laboratory variables, including plasma creatinine and urinary retinol-binding ratio, and demographic variables. RESULTS: The sample was characterized by geriatric (63.4±15.6 years), male (68%), being 53% surgical patients. Statistical analysis showed association between plasma creatinine and the following variables: gender (p-0.026), age (p-0.038), use of vasoactive drugs (p-0.003), proteinuria (p-0.025), Acute Physiological Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score (p-0.000), urea (p-0.000), potassium (p-0.003) and estimated creatinine clearance (p-0.000). Urinary retinol-binding protein was correlated with more variables: weight, use of invasive ventilation (p-0.000), use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (p-0.018), use of vasoactive drugs (p-0.021), high temperature (>37.5ºC) (p-0.005), proteinuria (p-0.000), bilirubinuria (p-0.004), urinary flow (p-0.019), minimal diastolic pressure (p-0.032), minimal systolic pressure (p-0.029), APACHE II (p-0.000), creatinine (p-0.001), urea (p-0.001), estimated creatinine clearance (p-0.000). Urinary retinol-binding protein also tended to associate with previous renal disease, vasculopathy and neoplasm. Sodium excretion fraction correlated with plasma creatinine and urinary retinol-binding protein in univariate analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Urinary retinol-binding protein might be considered in clinical practice as a better marker regarding diagnostic performance in patients at risk of developing acute kidney injury, when compared with other markers routinely used. Moreover, urinary retinol-binding protein has other features of a good diagnostic test – it is a practical and non-invasive method.

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    Renal function of intensive care unit patients: plasma creatinine and urinary retinol-binding protein
  • Acute kidney injury by glycerol: antioxidant effect of Vitis vinifera L

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2007;19(3):292-296

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    Acute kidney injury by glycerol: antioxidant effect of Vitis vinifera L

    Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2007;19(3):292-296

    DOI 10.1590/S0103-507X2007000300004

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    BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is the most serious complication of rhabdomyolysis. In this syndrome, the delivery of heme pigment induces an injury that distinguishes itself by glomerular vasoconstriction and direct cellular toxicity with oxidative component. The renoprotection with antioxidants has demonstrated satisfactory effect. The proanthocyanidins are natural antioxidants found in the grape seed extract. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant effect of Vitis vinifera (grape seed extract) on the renal function of rats submitted to the injury by rhabdomyolysis. METHODS: Wistar rats, male, adults, weight ranging from 250-300g were used. The AKI was induced by intramuscular administration of glycerol 50%. The animals were distributed in 4 groups: Saline group (6 mL/kg of NaCl 0.9% intraperitoneal once a day), Glycerol group (6 mL/kg) of intramuscular glycerol each femoral region received 3 mL/kg of glycerol, once a day), Vitis vinifera group (3 mg/kg/day v.o by 5 days) and Glycerol + Vitis vinifera by 5 days before glycerol). RESULTS: Renal function (RF-creatinine clearance) and oxidative profile (urinary peroxides-FOX-2 and MDA-TBARS) were evaluted. The Glycerol group treated with Vitis vinifera has shown improvements in RF and reduction levels of lipid peroxidation. CONCLUSION: The results of this study have confirmed the antioxidant protection of Vitis vinifera in AKI induced by glycerol.

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