title: The role of urinary liver-type fatty acid-binding protein in critically ill patients.
abstract: Although several urinary biomarkers have been validated as early diagnostic markers of acute kidney injury (AKI), their usefulness as outcome predictors is not well established. This study aimed to determine the diagnostic and prognostic abilities of urinary liver-type fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP) in heterogeneous critically ill patients. We prospectively collected data on patients admitted to medical and surgical intensive care units (ICUs) from July 2010 to June 2011. Urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and L-FABP at the time of ICU admission were quantitated. Of the 145 patients, 54 (37.2%) had AKI defined by the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) criteria. AKI patients showed significantly higher level of urinary NGAL and L-FABP and also higher mortality than non-AKI patients. The diagnostic performances, assessed by the area under the ROC curve, were 0.773 for NGAL and 0.780 for L-FABP, demonstrating their usefulness in diagnosing AKI. In multivariate Cox analysis, urinary L-FABP was an independent predictor for 90-day mortality. Urinary L-FABP seems to be promising both for the diagnosis of AKI and for the prediction of prognosis in heterogeneous ICU patients. It needs to be further validated for clinical utility.
authors: Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, The Institute of Renal Disease, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Eunjung
authors: E
authors: Cho
authors: Ha Na
authors: HN
authors: Yang
authors: Sang-Kyung
authors: SK
authors: Jo
authors: Won-Yong
authors: WY
authors: Cho
authors: Hyoung-Kyu
authors: HK
authors: Kim
mesh_terms: D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D000209:Acute-Phase Proteins / Q000652:urine; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019540:Area Under Curve; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000652:urine; D016638:Critical Illness; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins / Q000652:urine*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D000071068:Lipocalin-2; D054834:Lipocalins / Q000652:urine; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000652:urine; D012372:ROC Curve
chemical_list: D000209:Acute-Phase Proteins; D015415:Biomarkers; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; C489506:LCN2 protein, human; D000071068:Lipocalin-2; D054834:Lipocalins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins
keywords: Acute Kidney Injury; Liver-Type Fatty Acid-Binding Protein; Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin; Prognosis