Acute kidney injury AKI is a common but still relatively poorly recognized syndrome. About one-third of all patients develop AKI after cardiac surgery. Given that AKI is not characterized by certain symptoms for the diagnosis of AKI, creatinine is used which, due to its late response, is being attempted to be replaced by earlier and more sensitive biomarkers.
The purpose of the masters thesis was to detect early AKI after cardiac surgery by determining concentrations of new biomarkers such as BHMT-2 and IL-18 in urine samples using ELISA technology. These concentrations were predicted to be different in patients who developed AKI than in those patients who did not develop AKI.
The study included patients with ischemic heart disease presented for cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Serum and urine samples were taken before and after surgery After surgery, patients were divided into two groups based on serum creatinine concentration, to those who developed AKI and to those who did not.
The study failed to evaluate BHMT-2 as an early marker of AKI. Contrary to our expectations, his concentration decreases significantly after surgery. On the other hand, we found that IL-18 has a potential role in the early detection of AKI in patients after cardiac surgery. Its concentration after surgery is approximately 5 times higher than the preoperative concentration. But its predictive accuracy for AKI is quite different.
Further studies are needed to confirm the use of these biomarkers as a clinical method for the early detection of AKI.
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