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CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 51, Issue 6, Pages 765-774Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005836
Keywords
acute kidney injury; angiopoietin 2; fluid balance; fluid overload; pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome
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This study aimed to explore the association between acute kidney injury (AKI) and poor outcomes in pediatric patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and found that fluid overload (FO), creatinine, and urine output were related to the occurrence of AKI in a temporal manner. A retrospective cohort study revealed that AKI was associated with increased mortality and decreased ventilator-free days (VFDs), regardless of the timing of onset. A group of patients with "Cryptic AKI" was identified by adjusting creatinine levels, and their outcomes were similar to those who met AKI criteria by traditional means. Increases in FO, FO-adjusted creatinine, and ANGPT2 occurred prior to meeting conventional AKI criteria, providing important insights for clinical practice.
OBJECTIVES:Given the complex interrelatedness of fluid overload (FO), creatinine, acute kidney injury (AKI), and clinical outcomes, the association of AKI with poor outcomes in critically ill children may be underestimated due to definitions used. We aimed to disentangle these temporal relationships in a large cohort of children with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Quaternary care PICU. PATIENTS:Seven hundred twenty intubated children with ARDS between 2011 and 2019. INTERVENTIONS:None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Daily fluid balance, urine output (UOP), and creatinine for days 1-7 of ARDS were retrospectively abstracted. A subset of patients had angiopoietin 2 (ANGPT2) quantified on days 1, 3, and 7. Patients were classified as AKI by Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) stage 2/3 then grouped by timing of AKI onset (early if days 1-3 of ARDS, late if days 4-7 of ARDS, persistent if both) for comparison of PICU mortality and ventilator-free days (VFDs). A final category of Cryptic AKI was used to identify subjects who met KDIGO stage 2/3 criteria only when creatinine was adjusted for FO. Outcomes were compared between those who had Cryptic AKI identified by FO-adjusted creatinine versus those who had no AKI. Conventionally defined AKI occurred in 26% of patients (early 10%, late 3%, persistent 13%). AKI was associated with higher mortality and fewer VFDs, with no differences according to timing of onset. The Cryptic AKI group (6% of those labeled no AKI) had higher mortality and fewer VFDs than patients who did not meet AKI with FO-adjusted creatinine. FO, FO-adjusted creatinine, and ANGPT2 increased 1 day prior to meeting AKI criteria in the late AKI group. CONCLUSIONS:AKI was associated with higher mortality and fewer VFDs in pediatric ARDS, irrespective of timing. FO-adjusted creatinine captures a group of patients with Cryptic AKI with outcomes approaching those who meet AKI by traditional criteria. Increases in FO, FO-adjusted creatinine, and ANGPT2 occur prior to meeting conventional AKI criteria.
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