, 1998). Acute kidney injury and failure is diagnosed on the basis of changes in plasma creatinine concentration or urine output. In acute paraquat poisoning, creatinine peaks around five days post-ingestion and resolves within three weeks in survivors (Kim et al., 2009). In contrast to a previous study where acute renal failure was not noted in some patients who died (Gil et al., 2009), acute renal failure was noted in all deaths in our study (Fig. 3a); it also occurred in one survivor (Fig. 1a). Further, our study noted that dCr/dt predicts death where the best determinant was a rise >4.3 μmol/L/h ( Fig.
2a), which is slightly higher than a rise >3 μmol/L/h in the previous study ( Ragoucy-Sengler and Pileire, Talazoparib 1996). These rates of change in creatinine are likely to represent a loss of at least 70–80% of GFR ( Waikar and Bonventre, 2009). At least 6–12 h need to lapse between samples to ensure that minor variation due to analytical error and rehydration does not obscure the change. A large number of biomarkers of acute kidney injury have been described (Vaidya et al., 2008). Cystatin C is a 13 kD Androgen Receptor Antagonist mouse protein that is produced by all nucleated cells. It is freely filtered at the glomerulus, and in normally functioning renal tubules it is completely catabolised and reabsorbed. In response to acute kidney injury and/or inflammation there is an increase in
concentration in both plasma and urine (Vaidya et al., 2008). The concentration of cystatin C is reported to increase prior to that of creatinine when there is a change in glomerular filtration Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase rate, although this may vary between patient populations (Bagshaw and Bellomo, 2010). A significant increase in serum cystatin C concentration was observed 8 h following acute paraquat poisoning in rats; at 24 h an increase was also detected in bronchoalveolar fluid,
however, it was suggested that this was due to leakage from the serum (Hantson et al., 2008a). A previous case report of acute paraquat poisoning also noted an increase in cystatin C and creatinine, similar to our findings (Hantson et al., 2008b). Our study is the first case series to evaluate the rate of change in cystatin C from acute paraquat poisoning. In survivors, cystatin C was noted to increase and plateau while creatinine continued to increase. This is likely to relate to a shorter half-life of cystatin C and therefore time to steady state compared to creatinine. In their patient (who died 92 h after admission) Hantson et al. reported a progressive increase in cystatin C concentrations until 70 h post-admission (Hantson et al., 2008b). However, this patient’s treatment regimen included haemodialysis, which removes cystatin C from plasma (Mayeur et al., 2010), thereby complicating interpretation of this data. NGAL is a 25 kD protein associated with neutrophils but is also produced by injured epithelial and renal tubular cells.
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