Initial lactate levels linked to oliguria in term neonates with perinatal asphyxia.

BACKGROUND: Oliguria is a sign of impaired kidney function and has been shown to be an early predictor of adverse prognoses in patients with acute kidney injury. The relationship between urine output (UOP) and early lactate levels in neonates with perinatal asphyxia (PA) has not been extensively explored. This study aimed to investigate the link between oliguria during the first 24 h of life and early lactate levels in neonates with PA. METHODS: The medical records of 293 term neonates with asphyxia from 9216 hospitalized newborns were retrospectively analyzed, including 127 cases designated as the oliguria group and 166 cases as controls. Peripheral arterial blood gas after PA and UOP within 24 h after birth were analyzed. Logistic regression analyses and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis were conducted. RESULTS: Oliguria occurred in 43.34% of neonates with PA. The median UOP of the oliguria and control groups were 0.65 and 1.46 mL/kg/h, respectively. Elevated lactate levels after PA are an independent risk factor for oliguria in the following 24 h (p = 0.01; OR: 1.19; 95%CI: 1.04-1.35) and show a moderate discriminatory power for oliguria (AUC = 0.62). Using a cut off value of 8.15 mmol/L, the positive and negative predictive values and the specificity were 59.34%, 63.86%, and 78.30%, respectively. CONCLUSION: Neonates with elevated lactate levels after PA face a risk of oliguria in the following 24 h. Based on early elevated lactate levels after resuscitation, especially ≥ 8.15 mmol/L, meticulously monitoring UOP will allow this vulnerable population to receive early, tailored fluid management and medical intervention.

Machine-learning model for predicting oliguria in critically ill patients.

This retrospective cohort study aimed to develop and evaluate a machine-learning algorithm for predicting oliguria, a sign of acute kidney injury (AKI). To this end, electronic health record data from consecutive patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) between 2010 and 2019 were used and oliguria was defined as a urine output of less than 0.5 mL/kg/h. Furthermore, a light-gradient boosting machine was used for model development. Among the 9,241 patients who participated in the study, the proportions of patients with urine output < 0.5 mL/kg/h for 6 h and with AKI during the ICU stay were 27.4% and 30.2%, respectively. The area under the curve (AUC) values provided by the prediction algorithm for the onset of oliguria at 6 h and 72 h using 28 clinically relevant variables were 0.964 (a 95% confidence interval (CI) of 0.963-0.965) and 0.916 (a 95% CI of 0.914-0.918), respectively. The Shapley additive explanation analysis for predicting oliguria at 6 h identified urine values, severity scores, serum creatinine, oxygen partial pressure, fibrinogen/fibrin degradation products, interleukin-6, and peripheral temperature as important variables. Thus, this study demonstrates that a machine-learning algorithm can accurately predict oliguria onset in ICU patients, suggesting the importance of oliguria in the early diagnosis and optimal management of AKI.

Early detection of oliguric events in critically ill patients in the ICU with a novel continuous urine flow measurement device: results of an initial validation study.

OBJECTIVES: Urine output is used to evaluate fluid status and is an important marker for acute kidney injury (AKI). Our primary aim was to validate a new automatic urine output monitoring device by comparison to the current practice - the standard urometer. METHODS: We conducted a prospective observational study in three ICUs. Urine flow measurements by Serenno Medical Automatic urine output measuring device (Serenno Medical, Yokneam, Israel) were compared to standard urometer readings taken automatically at 5-minutes intervals by a camera, and to hourly urometer readings by the nurses, both over 1 to 7 days. Our primary outcome was the difference between urine flow assessed by the Serenno device and reference camera-derived measurements (Camera). Our secondary outcome was the difference between urine flow assessed by the Serenno device and hourly nursing assessments (Nurse), and detection of oliguria. RESULTS: Thirty-seven patients completed the study, with 1,306 h of recording and a median of 25 measurement hours per patient. Bland and Altman analysis comparing the study device to camera measurements demonstrated good agreement, with a bias of -0.4 ml/h and 95% confidence intervals ranging from - 28 to 27ml/h. Concordance was 92%. The correlation between Camera and hourly nursing assessment of urine output was distinctly worse with a bias of 7.2 ml and limits of agreement extending from - 75 to + 107 ml. Severe oliguria (urine output < 0.3 ml/kg/h) lasting 2 h or more was common and observed in 8 (21%) of patients. Among the severe oliguric events lasting more than 3 consecutive hours, 6 (41%) were not detected or documented by the nursing staff. There were no device-related complications. CONCLUSION: The Serenno Medical Automatic urine output measuring device required minimal supervision, little ICU nursing staff attention, and is sufficiently accurate and precise. In addition to providing continuous assessments of urine output, it was considerably more accurate than hourly nursing assessments.

Explainable machine learning model for predicting furosemide responsiveness in patients with oliguric acute kidney injury.

BACKGROUND: Although current guidelines didn't support the routine use of furosemide in oliguric acute kidney injury (AKI) management, some patients may benefit from furosemide administration at an early stage. We aimed to develop an explainable machine learning (ML) model to differentiate between furosemide-responsive (FR) and furosemide-unresponsive (FU) oliguric AKI. METHODS: From Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV (MIMIC-IV) and eICU Collaborative Research Database (eICU-CRD), oliguric AKI patients with urine output (UO) < 0.5 ml/kg/h for the first 6 h after ICU admission and furosemide infusion ≥ 40 mg in the following 6 h were retrospectively selected. The MIMIC-IV cohort was used in training a XGBoost model to predict UO > 0.65 ml/kg/h during 6-24 h succeeding the initial 6 h for assessing oliguria, and it was validated in the eICU-CRD cohort. We compared the predictive performance of the XGBoost model with the traditional logistic regression and other ML models. RESULTS: 6897 patients were included in the MIMIC-IV training cohort, with 2235 patients in the eICU-CRD validation cohort. The XGBoost model showed an AUC of 0.97 (95% CI: 0.96-0.98) for differentiating FR and FU oliguric AKI. It outperformed the logistic regression and other ML models in correctly predicting furosemide diuretic response, achieved 92.43% sensitivity (95% CI: 90.88-93.73%) and 95.12% specificity (95% CI: 93.51-96.3%). CONCLUSION: A boosted ensemble algorithm can be used to accurately differentiate between patients who would and would not respond to furosemide in oliguric AKI. By making the model explainable, clinicians would be able to better understand the reasoning behind the prediction outcome and make individualized treatment.

Urine Output Monitoring for the Diagnosis of Early-Onset Acute Kidney Injury in Very Preterm Infants.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The current threshold used for oliguria in the definition of neonatal AKI has been empirically defined as 1 ml/kg per hour. Urine output criteria are generally poorly documented, resulting in uncertainty in the most accurate threshold to identify AKI in very preterm infants with known tubular immaturity. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: We conducted a bicentric study including 473 very preterm infants (240/7-296/7 weeks of gestation) born between January 2014 and December 2018 with urine output measurements every 3 hours during the first 7 days of life and two serum creatinine measurements during the first 10 days of life. AKI was defined using the neonatal Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) definition. We tested whether higher urine output thresholds (1.5 or 2 ml/kg per hour) in modified AKI definitions may better discriminate neonatal mortality compared with the current definition. RESULTS: Early-onset AKI was developed by 101 of 473 (21%) very preterm infants. AKI was diagnosed on the basis of urine output criteria alone (no rise in creatinine) for 27 of 101 (27%) participants. Early-onset AKI was associated with higher risk of death before discharge (adjusted odds ratio, 3.9; 95% confidence interval, 1.9 to 7.8), and the AKI neonatal KDIGO score showed good discriminative performance for neonatal mortality, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of 0.68 (95% confidence interval, 0.61 to 0.75). Modified AKI definitions that included higher urine output thresholds showed significantly improved discriminative performance, with areas under the ROC curve of 0.73 (95% confidence interval, 0.66 to 0.80) for the 1.5-ml/kg per hour threshold and 0.75 (95% confidence interval, 0.68 to 0.81) for the 2-ml/kg per hour threshold. CONCLUSIONS: Early-onset AKI was diagnosed on the basis of urine output exclusively for a quarter of the cases. Furthermore, modified AKI definitions that included higher urine output improved the discriminative performance for predicting mortality.

External validation of a deep-learning model to predict severe acute kidney injury based on urine output changes in critically ill patients.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to externally validate algorithms (previously developed and trained in two United States populations) aimed at early detection of severe oliguric AKI (stage 2/3 KDIGO) in intensive care units patients. METHODS: The independent cohort was composed of 10'596 patients from the university hospital ICU of Amsterdam (the "AmsterdamUMC database") admitted to their intensive care units. In this cohort, we analysed the accuracy of algorithms based on logistic regression and deep learning methods. The accuracy of investigated algorithms had previously been tested with electronic intensive care unit (eICU) and MIMIC-III patients. RESULTS: The deep learning model had an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0,907 (± 0,007SE) with a sensitivity and specificity of 80% and 89%, respectively, for identifying oliguric AKI episodes. Logistic regression models had an AUC of 0,877 (± 0,005SE) with a sensitivity and specificity of 80% and 81%, respectively. These results were comparable to those obtained in the two US populations upon which the algorithms were previously developed and trained. CONCLUSION: External validation on the European sample confirmed the accuracy of the algorithms, previously investigated in the US population. The models show high accuracy in both the European and the American databases even though the two cohorts differ in a range of demographic and clinical characteristics, further underlining the validity and the generalizability of the two analytical approaches.

Association of Oliguria With Acute Kidney Injury Diagnosis, Severity Assessment, and Mortality Among Patients With Critical Illness.

Importance: The current definition and staging of acute kidney injury (AKI) considers alterations in serum creatinine (sCr) level and urinary output (UO). However, the relevance of oliguria-based criteria is disputed. Objective: To determine the contribution of oliguria, as defined by the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) criteria, to AKI diagnosis, severity assessment, and short- and long-term outcomes. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cohort study included adult patients admitted to a multidisciplinary intensive care unit from January 1, 2010, to June 15, 2020. Patients receiving long-term dialysis and those who declined consent were excluded. Daily sCr level and hourly UO measurements along with sociodemographic characteristics and severity scores were extracted from electronic medical records. Long-term mortality was assessed by cross-referencing the database with the Swiss national death registry. The onset and severity of AKI according to the KDIGO classification was determined using UO and sCr criteria separately, and their agreement was assessed. Main Outcomes and Measures: Using a multivariable model accounting for baseline characteristics, severity scores, and sCr stages, the association of UO criteria with 90-day mortality was evaluated. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to assess how missing sCr, body weight, and UO values, as well as different sCr baseline definitions and imputations methods, would affect the main results. Results: Among the 15 620 patients included in the study (10 330 men [66.1%] with a median age of 65 [IQR, 53-75] years, a median Simplified Acute Physiology Score II score of 40.0 [IQR, 30.0-53.0], and a median follow-up of 67.0 [IQR, 34.0-100.0] months), 12 143 (77.7%) fulfilled AKI criteria. Serum creatinine and UO criteria had poor agreement on AKI diagnosis and staging (Cohen weighted κ, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.35-0.37; P < .001). Compared with the isolated use of sCr criteria, consideration of UO criteria enabled identification of AKI in 5630 patients (36.0%). Those patients had a higher 90-day mortality than patients without AKI (724 of 5608 [12.9%] vs 288 of 3462 [8.3%]; P < .001). On multivariable analysis accounting for sCr stage, comorbidities, and illness severity, UO stages 2 and 3 were associated with a higher 90-day mortality (odds ratios, 2.4 [95% CI, 1.6-3.8; P < .001] and 6.2 [95% CI, 3.7-10.5; P < .001], respectively). These results remained significant in all sensitivity analyses. Conclusions and Relevance: The findings of this cohort study suggest that oliguria lasting more than 12 hours (KDIGO stage 2 or 3) has major AKI diagnostic implications and is associated with outcomes irrespective of sCr elevations.

Hypocomplementemia (C3) as an independent predictor for children with acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis: a long-term observation.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine the altering patterns in clinical characteristics and severity of acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) in children. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We analyzed the medical records of 119 children who were diagnosed with APSGN from 1987 to 2018, retrospectively. The patients were divided into two groups: Group I (n=72, before 1998) and Group II (n=47, after 1998). Clinical, radiologic, and laboratory findings were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: The clinical manifestations, including vomiting (20.8% vs. 4.3%, p=0.014), oliguria (40.3% vs. 19.1%, p=0.016), and generalized edema (86.1% vs. 63.8%, p=0.005), were statistically less frequent since 1998. Pulmonary edema on chest X-ray (22.7% vs. 4.4%, p=0.014) was less frequent in Group II than in Group I. The level of BUN (23.3±19.3 vs. 18.8±11.2, p=0.009) was lower in Group II than in Group I, while that of creatinine was not significantly different between the two groups. C3 level was an independent factor for predicting the development of edema (odds ratio [OR]: 1.034, 95% CI: 1.010-1.060, p=0.006) and acute nephritic symptoms (≥2) (OR: 0.974, 95% CI: 0.952-0996, p=0.020). It was also negatively correlated with an increasing number of acute nephritic symptoms, including oliguria and edema, in patients with APSGN (R=-0.182, p=0.048). CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that APSGN had favorable clinical manifestations and severity over the past 30 years. The monitoring of C3 levels can be used to assess the disease severity and risk of complications, including edema and oliguria, which are decreasing in South Korean children.

Automated versus manual urine output monitoring in the intensive care unit.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is defined by changes in serum creatinine and urine output (UO). Significant limitations exist regarding accurate ascertainment of urine output even within the intensive care unit. We sought to evaluate an automated urine output collections system and compare it to nursing measurements. We prospectively collected urine output using an electronic urine monitoring system and compared it to charted hourly UO in 44 patients after cardiac surgery at a single university hospital ICU. We calculated UO and oliguria rates and compared them to data from the sensor and from nursing charting. A total of 187 hourly UO measurements were obtained and on average, UO was reported 47 min late, with a median of 18 min, and a maximum of almost 6 h. Patients had a mean hourly UO of 76.3 ml over the observation period. Compared to manual measurements by study personnel, nurses significantly overestimated hourly UO by 19.9 ml (95% CI: 10.3; 29.5; p = < 0.001). By contrast, the mean difference between the UO measured with the sensor and by study personnel was 2.29 ml (95% CI: - 6.7; 11.3), p = 0.61. Electronic UO monitoring is significantly more accurate than nurse-performed manual measurements in actual intensive care patients. Furthermore, timely ascertainment of UO is difficult to achieve with manual technique, resulting in important delays in detecting oliguria perhaps leading to missed cases of AKI.

Assessment of prognostic value of intraoperative oliguria for postoperative acute kidney injury: a retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Oliguria is often viewed as a sign of renal hypoperfusion and an indicator for volume expansion during surgery. However, the prognostic association and the predictive utility of intraoperative oliguria for postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) are unclear. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study on patients undergoing major thoracic surgery in an academic hospital to assess the association of intraoperative oliguria with postoperative AKI and its predictive value. To contextualise our findings, we included our results in a meta-analysis of observational studies on the importance of oliguria during noncardiac surgery. RESULTS: In our cohort study, 3862 patients were included; 205 (5.3%) developed AKI after surgery. Intraoperative urine output of 0.3 ml kg-1 h-1 was the optimal threshold for oliguria in multivariable analysis. Patients with oliguria had an increased risk of AKI (adjusted odds ratio: 2.60; 95% confidence interval: 1.24-5.05). However, intraoperative oliguria had a sensitivity of 5.9%, specificity of 98%, positive likelihood ratio of 2.74, and negative likelihood ratio of 0.96, suggesting poor predictive ability. Moreover, it did not improve upon the predictive performance of a multivariable model, based on discrimination and reclassification indices. Our findings were generally consistent with the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis, including six additional studies. CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative oliguria has moderate association with, but poor predictive ability for, postoperative AKI. It remains of clinical interest as a risk factor potentially modifiable to interventions.

Intra-abdominal Hypertension as a Cause of Oliguric Acute Kidney Injury in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a well-known complication in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). It could occur via diverse mechanisms such as leukemic infiltration, extrarenal obstruction, tumor lysis syndrome, glomerular diseases, and medication side effects. The incidence of kidney disease at the diagnosis of CLL is about 10%. We report a case of AKI, in a patient with a known history of CLL, due to abdominal compartment syndrome, caused by extremely enlarged intra-abdominal lymph masses. To the best of our knowledge, no case of AKI due to such cause has been reported so far.

Acute kidney injury after liver surgery: does postoperative urine output correlate with postoperative serum creatinine?

BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after hepatectomy occurs in around 10% of cases. AKI is often defined based only on postoperative serum creatinine increase. This study aimed to assess if postoperative urine output (UO) correlated with serum creatinine after hepatectomy. METHODS: All consecutive hepatectomy patients (2010-2016) were assessed. AKI was defined according to KDIGO criteria: serum creatinine increase ≥26.5 µmol/l, creatinine increase ≥1.5x baseline creatinine, or postoperative oliguria. Oliguria was defined as daily mean UO <0.5 mL/kg/h. AKI was subdivided into creatinine-based or oliguria-based AKI according to the defining criterion. RESULTS: Out of 285 patients, AKI was observed in 79 cases (28%). Creatinine-based AKI occurred in 25 patients (9%) and oliguria-based only AKI in 54 patients (19%). Ten patients fulfilled both criteria (4%). Postoperative UO correlated poorly with postoperative serum creatinine level in both whole cohort (rho = -0.34, p <0.001) and AKI subgroup (rho = -0.189, p = 0.124). No association was found between postoperative oliguria and postoperative serum creatinine increase (HR = 0.5, 95%CI: 0.2-1.9, p = 0.341). On multivariable analysis, operation duration >360 minutes was the only predictor of creatinine increase (HR = 3.6, 95%CI: 1.1-11.4, p = 0.032). CONCLUSION: Postoperative UO showed poor correlation with postoperative serum creatinine both in all patients and AKI patients. Surgery duration >360 minutes appeared as the only independent predictor of postoperative serum creatinine increase.

Takayasu arteritis: differential diagnosis in a teenager with severe acute kidney injury - a case report / Arterite de Takayasu: diagnóstico diferencial em adolescente com lesão renal aguda grave - relato de caso

ABSTRACT Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory condition of unknown cause that involves large vessels - particularly the aorta and its branches - such as the carotid, coronary, pulmonary, and renal arteries. The left subclavian artery is the most frequently involved vessel. Stenosis of the renal artery has been reported in 23-31% of the cases and may result in malignant hypertension, ischemic renal disease, decompensated heart failure, and premature death. Involvement of both renal arteries is uncommon. Early onset anuria and acute kidney injury are rare and have been reported only in a few cases in the literature. This report describes the case of a 15-year-old female with constitutional symptoms evolving for a year, combined with headache, nausea, and vomiting, in addition to frequent visits to emergency services and insufficient clinical examination. The patient worsened significantly six months after the onset of symptoms and developed acute pulmonary edema, oliguria, acute kidney injury, and difficult-to-control hypertension, at which point she was admitted for intensive care and hemodialysis. Initial ultrasound examination showed she had normal kidneys and stenosis-free renal arteries. The patient was still anuric after 30 days of hospitalization. A biopsy was performed and revealed her kidneys were normal. Computed tomography angiography scans of the abdominal aorta presented evidence of occlusion of both renal arteries. The patient met the diagnostic criteria for Takayasu arteritis and had a severe complication rarely described in the literature: stenosis of the two renal arteries during the acute stage of ischemic renal disease.

RESUMO A Arterite de Takayasu (AT) é uma doença inflamatória crônica, granulomatosa, de causa desconhecida, que afeta grandes vasos, principalmente a aorta e seus ramos, incluindo artérias carótidas, coronárias, pulmonares e renais, sendo a artéria subclávia esquerda o vaso mais acometido. A estenose da artéria renal é relatada em 23-31% dos casos e pode resultar em hipertensão maligna, insuficiência renal por isquemia, descompensação cardíaca e morte prematura. O acometimento bilateral de artérias renais é incomum, sendo rara a presença de anúria súbita e lesão renal aguda como sintoma inicial da doença, com poucos relatos na literatura. O caso reporta uma adolescente de 15 anos com sintomas constitucionais durante um ano de evolução, associados a problemas como cefaleia, náuseas e vômitos, com idas frequentes a serviços de emergência, sem adequada investigação clínica. Após 6 meses do início dos sintomas, a paciente evoluiu de forma grave, com quadro de edema agudo de pulmão, oligúria, lesão renal aguda e hipertensão arterial de difícil controle, sendo necessário suporte em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva e hemodiálise. A ultrassonografia inicial mostrava rins normais e artérias renais sem sinais de estenose. Após 30 dias de internamento, paciente permanecia anúrica, sendo realizada biópsia renal que se mostrou dentro dos padrões da normalidade. Angiotomografia de aorta abdominal evidenciou oclusão bilateral de artérias renais. A paciente descrita fechou critérios diagnósticos para arterite de Takayasu e manifestou uma complicação grave pouco descrita na literatura: estenose bilateral de artérias renais, ainda na fase aguda da nefropatia isquêmica.

Oliguria and Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children: Implications for Diagnosis and Outcomes.

OBJECTIVES: Consensus definitions for acute kidney injury are based on changes in serum creatinine and urine output. Although the creatinine criteria have been widely applied, the contribution of the urine output criteria remains poorly understood. We evaluated these criteria individually and collectively to determine their impact on the diagnosis and outcome of severe acute kidney injury. DESIGN AND SETTING: Post hoc analysis of Assessment of Worldwide Acute Kidney Injury, Renal Angina, and Epidemiology study-a prospective international observational multicenter study. PATIENTS: Critically ill children enrolled in Assessment of Worldwide Acute Kidney Injury, Renal Angina and, Epidemiology database. MEASUREMENT: To assess the differential impact of creatinine and urine output criteria on severe acute kidney injury (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes stage ≥ 2). Patients were divided into four cohorts: no-severe acute kidney injury, severe acute kidney injury by creatinine criteria only, severe acute kidney injury by urine output criteria only, and severe acute kidney injury by both creatinine and urine output criteria. RESULTS: Severe acute kidney injury occurred in 496 of 3,318 children (14.9%); 343 (69.2%) were creatinine criteria only, 90 (18.1%) were urine output criteria only, and 63 (12.7%) were both creatinine and urine output criteria. Twenty-eight-day mortality for creatinine criteria only and urine output criteria only patients was similar (6.7% vs 7.8%) and higher than those without severe acute kidney injury (2.9%; p < 0.01). Both creatinine and urine output criteria patients had higher mortality than creatinine criteria only and urine output criteria only patients (38.1%; p < 0.001). Compared with patients without severe acute kidney injury, the relative risk of receiving dialysis increased from 9.1 (95% CI, 3.9-21.2) in creatinine criteria only, to 28.2 (95% CI, 11.8-67.7) in urine output criteria only, to 165.7 (95% CI, 86.3-318.2) in both creatinine and urine output criteria (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Nearly one in five critically ill children with acute kidney injury do not experience increase in serum creatinine. These acute kidney injury events, which are only identified by urine output criteria, are associated with comparably poor outcomes as those diagnosed by changes in creatinine. Children meeting both criteria had worse outcomes than those meeting only one. We suggest oliguria represents a risk factor for poorer outcomes among children who develop acute kidney injury. Application of both the creatinine and urine output criteria leads to a more comprehensive epidemiologic assessment of acute kidney injury and identifies a subset of children with acute kidney injury who are at higher risk for morbidity and mortality.

Takayasu arteritis: differential diagnosis in a teenager with severe acute kidney injury - a case report.

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory condition of unknown cause that involves large vessels - particularly the aorta and its branches - such as the carotid, coronary, pulmonary, and renal arteries. The left subclavian artery is the most frequently involved vessel. Stenosis of the renal artery has been reported in 23-31% of the cases and may result in malignant hypertension, ischemic renal disease, decompensated heart failure, and premature death. Involvement of both renal arteries is uncommon. Early onset anuria and acute kidney injury are rare and have been reported only in a few cases in the literature. This report describes the case of a 15-year-old female with constitutional symptoms evolving for a year, combined with headache, nausea, and vomiting, in addition to frequent visits to emergency services and insufficient clinical examination. The patient worsened significantly six months after the onset of symptoms and developed acute pulmonary edema, oliguria, acute kidney injury, and difficult-to-control hypertension, at which point she was admitted for intensive care and hemodialysis. Initial ultrasound examination showed she had normal kidneys and stenosis-free renal arteries. The patient was still anuric after 30 days of hospitalization. A biopsy was performed and revealed her kidneys were normal. Computed tomography angiography scans of the abdominal aorta presented evidence of occlusion of both renal arteries. The patient met the diagnostic criteria for Takayasu arteritis and had a severe complication rarely described in the literature: stenosis of the two renal arteries during the acute stage of ischemic renal disease.

Pure large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder without urological symptoms.

Neuroendocrine carcinoma is one of the uncommonly seen pathologies of the urinary bladder. Macroscopic hematuria is frequently encountered symptom in patients with neuroendocrine carcinoma. We report a 45-year-old man with left solitary kidney and oliguria for five days the development of acute renal failure (ARF) with the impaired general condition. The underlying cause being identified as pure type large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder. Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder is an uncommon fatal tumor. No macroscopic hematuria or urological symptom was observed in our case. Advanced ectasia was not observed in the kidney, and the patient's clinical status was complicated with ARF. It must not be forgotten that in some bladder tumors, the patient's general condition may be impaired without urological symptoms.

Oliguria in critically ill patients: a narrative review.

Oliguria is often observed in critically ill patients. However, different thresholds in urine output (UO) have raised discussion as to the clinical importance of a transiently reduced UO of less than 0.5 ml/kg/h lasting for at least 6 h. While some studies have demonstrated that isolated oliguria without a concomitant increase in serum creatinine is associated with higher mortality rates, different underlying pathophysiological mechanisms suggest varied clinical importance of reduced UO, as some episodes of oliguria may be fully reversible. We aim to explore the clinical relevance of oliguria in critically ill patients and propose a clinical pathway for the diagnostic and therapeutic management of an oliguric, critically ill patient.

Urine volume as a predicting factor for furosemide clearance during continuous infusion in AKI septic shock patients on hemodiafiltration.

BACKGROUND: This study assessed the contribution of intracorporeal (IC) and extracorporeal clearance (EC) of furosemide in patients with septic acute kidney injury (AKI), and the relationship between plasma concentrations and urine volume. METHODS: Prospective cohort observational study of 15 patients with septic AKI undergoing continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF) divided according to urine volume (< 500 ml/12 h, Oliguria group, n = 5; > 500 ml/12 h, Diuresis group, n = 10) during continuous infusion of furosemide (120 mg/12 h) at steady-state condition. Plasma and effluent furosemide concentrations were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-mass spectrometry every 12 h for 48 h. RESULTS: Furosemide plasma concentrations and total body clearance (TBC) were 6.14 mg/l and 22.1 ml/min for the Oliguria group, and 2.63 mg/l and 54.4 ml/min for the Diuresis group, respectively (p < 0.05). When urine volume was < 500 ml/24 h, the furosemide plasma concentrations peaked at the potentially toxic value of 13.0 mg/l. Furosemide EC was not relevant for the Diuresis group, but it represented 18% of TBC for the Oliguria group. Furosemide plasma concentrations correlated positively with dose infusion for both groups (r = 0.728 and 0.685, p < 0.05), and negatively with urine volume only for the Diuresis (r = - 0.578, p < 0.01) but not for the Oliguria group (r = - 0.089, p = 0.715). CONCLUSIONS: For patients with urine volume > 500 ml/12 h continuous infusion of furosemide up to 480 mg/24 h leads to increasing urine volume, which can predict furosemide plasma levels within its safety range. When the urine volume is lower, the furosemide plasma levels are increased beyond any further diuretic efficacy.