IN THE NEWS ---> ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY

Current issue of CJASN has two papers:
1. Urine Netrin as an early predictor of AKI in cardiac surgery patients
2. Urine Sediment Score as a predictor of AKI and how severe it will be, using the AKIN criteria.

Two more contenders to the already growing list of Kim-1, NgAl, perforin, granzyme B, cystatin C.
So far, creatinine is the best marker we have. Hoping these above studies and markers being studied will eventually change the way we look at the renal disease. We are in a  need for a "troponin" for the kidney.