[The assessment value of urinary NGAL combined with blood NLR in the early prognosis of patients with acute paraquat poisoning].

Objective: To explore the evaluate of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) , combined with neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in the early prognosis of patients with acute paraquat poisoning (APP) . Methods: In March 2019, 108 APP patients admitted to Emergency Medicine Department of Hebei Medical University from January 2017 to December 2018 were selected as the observation group, 60 healthy people in the same period were see as the control group according to the results of diagnosis and 28-day survival, the observation group was divided into 51 death group and 57 survival group. The correlation between NGAL, NLR and the death of APP patients was analyzed, to explore the value of NGAL and NLR in predicting the death of APP patients. Results: Compared with the Control group, the NGAL and NLR in the observation group were significantly higher (P<0.01) , and the NGAL and NLR in the death group were significantly higher (P<0.05) . The results showed that NGAL and NLR were positively correlated with the death of APP patients on 28th day, and the Correlation Coefficient was 0.456 and 0.638 at 2nd Day (P<0.01) The area under the ROC curve of NGAL, NLR and their combination were 0.764, 0.869 and 0.905, respectively. Conclusion: The combined detection of NGAL and NLR has important clinical significance in the early prediction of 28-day mortality in APP patients.

Correlation between neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin and soluble CD14 subtype on the prognosis evaluation of acute paraquat poisoning patients.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article is to study the correlation between neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and soluble CD14 subtype (presepsin) on the severity and prognosis evaluation of acute paraquat poisoning (APP) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied 120 APP patients who were divided into three groups: light (28 cases), moderate (52 cases), and heavy poisoning (40 cases) groups. Twenty healthy volunteers were enrolled as controls. RESULTS: Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurred in 86 APP patients (71.7%, 86 of 120). In AKI group, urine NGAL was elevated 3 h after treatment, serum NGAL was elevated 24 h after treatment, and serum creatine (SCr) was elevated 2 days after treatment, which were all significantly higher than non-AKI group. Compared with control group, there were significant differences in presepsin and acute physiology and chronic health status (APACHE) II score of different poisoning groups. There were significant differences in detection indices 24 h, 3 days, and 7 days after treatment among different poisoning groups. There was a positive correlation between urine NGAL and serum paraquat concentration, urine NGAL, and AKI morbidity (r 1 = 0.974, r 2 = 0.766, p < 0.001), suggesting higher urine NGAL level indicated higher AKI morbidity. Receiver operating characteristic curves analysis suggested serum presepsin level and urine NGAL level had higher sensitivity and specificity than APACHE II score when predicting 28-day mortality of APP patients. CONCLUSION: Serum and urine NGAL level is elevated earlier than SCr, which is important for the early diagnosis of APP. Serum presepsin and urine NGAL levels can be used as markers to diagnose the severity of AKI and predict the mortality of APP patients.