Urine Biomarkers for Renal Function Monitoring in Preterm Infants

Inha University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Premature Infant

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02813109

U-BIO-16

Details and patient eligibility

About

The true renal function of preterm infants is difficult to evaluate. Serum creatinine (Cr) levels in infants are unreliable as a detector of renal function in the first few days of life because they may continue to reflect maternal levels. Although few candidates appear to be a useful biomarker for kidney injury, scant reference data on these biomarker in preterm infants exist, and studies have yielded conflicting results. Therefore, we aimed to determine the reliable urinary biomarkers to detect kidney injuries in preterm infants.

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 2 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• premature infants born before 37 weeks of gestational age

Exclusion criteria

• cardiac or renal anomalies
• transferred in 2 days after birth from other hospitals