J Brett Heimlich1,2, Godwin Chipoka1, Laila Elsherif3, Emeraghi David4, Graham Ellis1,5, Portia Kamthunzi1, Robert Krysiak1, Pilirani Mafunga1, Qingning Zhou6, Jianwen Cai7, Satish Gopal1,4, Nigel S Key4, Kenneth I Ataga4. 1. UNC Project-Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi. 2. Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. 3. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 4. Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 5. Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, California. 6. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina. 7. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Glomerulopathy is an increasingly identified complication in young patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Hyperfiltration and albuminuria followed by declining glomerular filtration rates and eventual end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is assumed to be the typical progression of glomerular disease. There are only a few reported biomarkers to identify early-stage renal disease in SCD. PROCEDURES: We detail the renal profile of 101 children with SCD in Malawi and propose a novel urinary biomarker for the identification of early renal disease. RESULTS: Among children with sickle cell anemia, 24.8% had a urine albumin-creatinine ratio of 30 mg/g or above. In univariate analysis, only patients with higher urinary nephrin, a urinary marker of glomerular injury, had significantly greater odds of having albuminuria. In multivariable analysis, nephrin remained significantly associated with albuminuria. A nephrin-creatinine ratio (NCR) cut-point of 622 ng/mg, the 50th percentile, was associated with a 45.8 times greater odds of having albuminuria in children with nephrinuria above this value. Further analysis revealed this urinary NCR cut-point to have 96% sensitivity, 64% specificity, 47% positive predictive value, and 98% negative predictive value for the presence of albuminuria. CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that a substantial number of children with SCD in Malawi have renal disease and could be at risk for worsening nephropathy and ESRD as they age. Our data suggest that urinary nephrin could be utilized as an early marker of glomerular disease in SCD.
BACKGROUND:Glomerulopathy is an increasingly identified complication in young patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Hyperfiltration and albuminuria followed by declining glomerular filtration rates and eventual end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is assumed to be the typical progression of glomerular disease. There are only a few reported biomarkers to identify early-stage renal disease in SCD. PROCEDURES: We detail the renal profile of 101 children with SCD in Malawi and propose a novel urinary biomarker for the identification of early renal disease. RESULTS: Among children with sickle cell anemia, 24.8% had a urine albumin-creatinine ratio of 30 mg/g or above. In univariate analysis, only patients with higher urinary nephrin, a urinary marker of glomerular injury, had significantly greater odds of having albuminuria. In multivariable analysis, nephrin remained significantly associated with albuminuria. A nephrin-creatinine ratio (NCR) cut-point of 622 ng/mg, the 50th percentile, was associated with a 45.8 times greater odds of having albuminuria in children with nephrinuria above this value. Further analysis revealed this urinary NCR cut-point to have 96% sensitivity, 64% specificity, 47% positive predictive value, and 98% negative predictive value for the presence of albuminuria. CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that a substantial number of children with SCD in Malawi have renal disease and could be at risk for worsening nephropathy and ESRD as they age. Our data suggest that urinary nephrin could be utilized as an early marker of glomerular disease in SCD.
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