Kidney Week

Abstract: SA-PO013

Evaluation of the Accuracy of Estimated Baseline Serum Creatinine for Diagnosis of AKI in the Japanese Population

Session Information

• AKI Clinical: Epidemiology and Outcomes
  November 04, 2017 | Location: Hall H, Morial Convention Center
  Abstract Time: 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Category: Acute Kidney Injury

• 003 AKI: Clinical and Translational

Authors

• Horino, Taro, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Taro Horino,

• Hatakeyama, Yutaka, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Yutaka Hatakeyama,

• Matsumoto, Tatsuki, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Tatsuki Matsumoto,

• Nagata, Keitaro, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Keitaro Nagata,

• Inoue, Kosuke, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Kosuke Inoue,

• Terada, Yoshio, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Yoshio Terada,

• Okuhara, Yoshiyasu, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan

Yoshiyasu Okuhara,

Background

Modern epidemiologic studies of acute kidney injury (AKI) have been facilitated by the increasing availability of electronic medical records. However, pre-morbid reference serum creatinine (SCr) data are often unavailable in such records. Investigators substitute estimated baseline SCr with the eGFR 75 approach, instead of using actually measured baseline SCr. Here, we evaluated the accuracy of estimated baseline SCr for AKI diagnosis in the Japanese population.

Methods

Inpatients and outpatients aged 18-80 years were retrospectively enrolled. AKI was diagnosed according to the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes criteria, using SCr levels. The non-AKI and AKI groups were selected using the following criteria: increase 1.5 times greater than baseline SCr, “baseline SCr” or increase 0.3 mg/dL greater than baseline SCr in 48 h, “increase in 48 h”. AKI accuracy defined by the estimated reference SCr, the average SCr value of the non-AKI population, eb-GFR-A approach, or the back-calculated SCr from fixed eGFR = 75 mL/min/1.73 m², eGFR 75 approach, or, eb-GFR-B approach in this study, was evaluated.

Results

We analyzed data from 131,358 Japanese patients. The number of patients with reference baseline SCr in the non-AKI and AKI patients were 29,834 and 8,952, respectively. For AKI patients diagnosed using “baseline SCr”, the AKI diagnostic accuracy rates as defined by eb-GFR-A and eb-GFR-B were 63.5% and 57.7%, respectively, while in AKI diagnosed using “increase in 48 h”, the AKI diagnostic accuracy rates as defined by eb-GFR-A and eb-GFR-B were 78.7% and 75.1%, respectively. In non-AKI patients, false positive rates of AKI misdiagnosed via eb-GFR-A and eb-GFR-B were 7.4% and 6.8%, respectively.

Conclusion

AKI diagnosis using the average SCr value of the general population may yield more accurate results than diagnosis using the eGFR 75 approach when the reference SCr is unavailable.