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Filter by:Urinary Activin A as amarker for assessement of acute kidney injury severity in patient admitted at Assuit University Hospital
Critically ill patients are at risk of developing a sudden decrease of kidney function which may be detected by a decrease in urine output or is diagnosed on the basis of blood tests for substances normally eliminated by the kidney, primarily creatinine. Because it takes about 24 hours for the creatinine level to rise, even if both kidneys have ceased to function, better markers are needed. This trial is investigating if the marker urinary dickkopf-3 (uDKK3) allows an early prediction of a sudden decrease of kidney function.
Patients who are very ill either due to a severe infection, major organ injury, trauma or a major operation may require significant support with devices such as a dialysis machine for the kidneys or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for the heart and lungs. This is often due to a reaction of the body to the insult which is termed inflammation. The investigators would like to assess if the use of a device that can remove the agents driving this reaction can lead to a quicker recovery form the illness. The device is a blood filter called HA380 and it would be connected to either the dialysis machine or the ECMO circuit. The investigators want to assess the feasibility of conducting a study with the HA380 column. We will also evaluate if the use of the HA380 column has an effect on the time spent on dialysis or ECMO, time spent on the breathing machine, time spent requiring drugs to support blood pressure and time spent in the intensive care unit.
This study aims to investigate the true incidence and clinical presentation of post-traumatic AKI in hospitalized pediatric patients and identify the risk, and severity of AKI. The results would aid the emergency physicians in the early identification of those at risk of AKI to establish a resuscitation strategy that aims at preventing AKI
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis and septic shock are major healthcare problems, killing between one in three and one in six of those they affect. organ dysfunction can be represented by the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score of 2 points or more (respiratory rate of 22/min or greater, altered mentation, or systolic blood pressure of 100 mm Hg or less), which is associated with an in- hospital mortality greater than 10%. Septic shock is defined as a subset of sepsis in which profound circulatory, cellular, and metabolic abnormalities are associated with a greater risk of mortality than with sepsis alone. Patients with septic shock can be clinically identified by a vasopressor requirement to maintain a mean arterial pressure of 65 mm Hg or greater and serum lactate level greater than 2 mmol/L (>18 mg/dL) in the absence of hypovolemia. This combination is associated with hospital mortality rates greater than 40%.
The aim of the study is to determine whether there is a correlation between changes in the renal resistive index and the restoration of kidney function in critically ill patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy.
This study is examining if injection of iodine contrast media increases the risk of acute kidney injury in patients with severely reduced renal function. All patients who have a medical need for a computerized tomography, either with or without iodine contrast media, and has a renal function of less than estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) 30 will be recruited. Blood and urine samples will be collected at baseline, three and 21 days after the computerized tomography. Additionally, we will examine if the decision to use iodine contrast media or not was easy or difficult if the use of iodine contrast media potentially changed the patient care and if it might have been lifesaving.
Scoring systems that combine donor clinical and morphological parameters to predict outcome of kidney transplantation lack enough specificity to be generally accepted. Compare to classical histology, molecular assessment of renal tissue offers unbiased and technically robust approach. In this prospective 3-months' observational study procurement biopsies in 180 brain death donors will be performed. Using microarray which detect top differently regulated genes, conventional histology, urinary AKI biomarkers, renal function and clinical variables models predicting DGF and early graft scarring (IFTA, poor graft function) in recipients will be constructed. The associations of AKI in donors with distinct fibrosis atrophy and AKI molecular signals will be found. Molecular techniques and final models may help to improve the decision-making process for the acceptance of kidneys from marginal donors but more importantly, it may help clinicians to guide less toxic immunosuppression in identified problematic grafts.
Severe trauma remains the leading cause of death in people under 50, and is associated with high morbidity, including severe disability, with a substantial socio-economic impact. Secondary to trauma, multiple mechanisms (inflammatory, ischemic, oxidative, etc.) setting in rapidly, leads to organ failure, one of the three first cause of death. Vascular damage, with vasoplegia, renal damage, with acute kidney injury (AKI), and pulmonary damage, with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), are the most frequently observed but all organs can be affected whatever the type of trauma. For these reasons, identifying the pathophysiological pathways involved in organ failure induced by severe trauma is a major step towards limiting the morbidity and mortality induced by trauma, and proposing therapies to prevent them. Because of the variability of lesions in these patients, and the multiplicity of pathways activated, the mechanisms involved and their causality with organ failure following severe trauma, are still poorly understood. Given their frequency and importance in terms of morbidity and mortality, the investigators decided to take a particular interest in the mechanisms leading to renal and pulmonary injury. The investigators' hypothesis is that the study of urinary and blood markers not performed as part of clinical routine would provide a better understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to organ failure secondary to severe trauma, and more specifically to renal and pulmonary injuries. With TRAUMATEC study, the investigators will explore mechanisms leading to AKI and ARDS through blood and urine samples of 60 severe trauma patients sampled over the first 48 hours after ICU admission and a reference of 20 healthy volunteers.
Exploring the predictive and evaluative value of various indicators of bedside critical renal ultrasound in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI)