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Published on: November 7, 2018
Detecting early kidney injury due to host-virus interaction response in treatment-naive CHB-a pilot study
Puneet Gandhi1, Kavita Peter1, Subodh Varshney2,3
1Department of Research and Training, Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, India.
Purpose:
Clinical evidence suggests that patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) have an increased risk of renal impairment due to inflammation induced by virus-host interaction. We aimed to evaluate and validate a set of protein biomarkers singularly and in combination for the early detection of subclinical kidney injury in patients with CHB naive to antiretroviral therapy.
Methods:
This work is part of a prospective cross-sectional study for which 69 HBsAg-positive, treatment-naive patients with CHB with an equal number of age-matched healthy volunteers were considered. At diagnosis, serum creatinine (sCr), urea, alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, serum cystatin-C (sCys-C), serum neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (sNGAL), serum Fetuin-A (sFet-A), urinary interleukin-18 binding protein (uIL-18BP), and urinary kidney injury molecule-1 (uKIM-1) levels were determined.
Results:
There was a significant elevation in the concentrations of three proteins in our CHB cohort (sCys-C, sNGAL, and uIL-18BP; p < 0.0001) while sFet-A was down-regulated (p<0.01) as compared to the control group. A receiver operating characteristic curve analysis revealed an Area under the curve of 0.935 for sCys-C and 0.811 for sNGAL, which improved to 0.984 when all four indicators were combined in a panel to discriminate the onset of renal injury incited by inflammatory response in CHB with 97.1% sensitivity at 91.3% specificity. Additionally, only sCys-C and sNGAL differed significantly among the phases of CHB infection (p<0.05).
Conclusions:
This novel noninvasive diagnostic screen is expedient in detecting inflammation and early kidney injury before a rise in sCr and can aid in predicting renal outcomes in patients with CHB.
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