Renal profiles in extreme prematurity: a three-year review

In this study we review the serum urea and serum creatinine of 74 premature infants born under 27 weeks’ gestation over a three-year period. We follow the progression of their renal profiles from birth until discharge. We assess the impact of gestation, birth weight, gender and antenatal medications on these renal biomarkers.

Faezeh Sakhinia¹
Paediatric ST7 Renal GRID Trainee
faezehsakhinia@doctors.org.uk

Chris Worth^2,3
Clinical Research Fellow in Congenital Hyperinsulinism and Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science

Archana Mishra⁴
Neonatal Consultant

¹Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
²Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
³Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
⁴Department of Neonatology, Royal Bolton Hospital

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Keywords

nephrology; renal; urea; creatinine

Key points

With increasing gestation, higher values of serum urea and creatinine are seen at birth, followed by an inverse correlation from day two of life.
Since the introduction of caffeine citrate and better awareness of neonatal acute kidney injury, we demonstrate an improvement in renal profiles of extremely premature infants.
We provide the first detailed description on the renal biomarkers of infants born under 24 weeks’ gestation.

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