1. Association of Residual Urine Output with Mortality, Quality of Life, and Inflammation in Incident Hemodialysis The Choices for Healthy Outcomes in caring for End-Stage Renal Disease (CHOICE) Study Peter Schrier, MD Journal Club Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine 2011
2. Outline Residual Renal Function What it is Why it matters Peritoneal Dialysis Data Hemodialysis Data CHOICE Study
3. Residual Renal Function Small Solute Clearance (measured GFR) Volume Clearance (Urine output/volume) Endocrine Kidney (ESA usage, hemoglobin)
19. Mortality with increased rGFR (renal GFR = RKF) vs. increased pCrCl (peritoneal creatinine clearance) vs. urine outputCANUSA- J Am Soc Nephrol 12: 2158–2162, 2001
20. RKF and Morality in PD CANUSA- J Am Soc Nephrol 12: 2158–2162, 2001
21. RKF and Morality in PD CANUSA- J Am Soc Nephrol 12: 2158–2162, 2001
27. Patients included all current patients at the single hemodialysis center who agreed to participate and RFK was assessed at study initiation onlyShemin- Am J Kidney Dis. 2001;38(1):85-90.
34. RKF and Mortality in HD Figure 1. The effect of single-pool Kt/Vurea (sp-dKt/Vurea) on mortality by presence of residual renal function (rKt/Vurea = 0 [“anurics’” versus rKt/Vurea >0). The rKt/Vurea and sp-dKt/Vurea were included as time-dependent variables. The relative risks are adjusted for age, Davies’ comorbidity score, primary kidney disease, subjective global assessment, and body mass index. J Am Soc Nephrol 15: 1061–1070, 2004
36. RKD and Mortality in Dialysis Pearl and Bargman, Am J Kidney Dis 53:1068-1081
37. Quality of Life (QoL) in PD NECOSAD-2- Am J Kidney Dis. 2003;41(6):1293- 1302.
38. CHOICE STUDY 734 patients from 81 clinics nationally Prospective, observational cohort study Incident dialysis patients New onset of long-term dialysis Baseline at within after initiation of therapy Goal: Determine association of urine output with mortality, quality of life, and inflammation in incident HD patients
39. Assessment of RKF Urine output used as a surrogate for RKF Questionnaire at baseline and one year “Do you produce at least one full cup (250cc) of urine daily?” Urine output was measured in 42% of patients and was found to correlate well with reported production of 250cc/day
43. All-Cause Mortality e Clinical and treatment factors in addition to demographic characteristics: smoking history (ever smoked), pulse pressure, body mass index, primary cause of kidney failure (diabetes, hypertension, glomerulonephritis, or other), Index of Coexistent Disease score (0-3), cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, left ventricular hypertrophy, diabetes, and serum albumin level (at baseline or year 1).
45. Cardiovascular Mortality e Clinical and treatment factors in addition to demographic characteristics: smoking history (ever smoked), pulse pressure, body mass index, primary cause of kidney failure (diabetes, hypertension, glomerulonephritis, or other), Index of Coexistent Disease score (0-3), cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, left ventricular hypertrophy, diabetes, and serum albumin level (at baseline or year 1).
50. Improvements CVD Mortality Not enough power? Many variables were very close to statistical significance Definition of Residual Renal Function Subjective urine output of >250cc rather arbitrary. Maybe we are mislabeling those with ~100 cc urine output/day as not having RKF when they do enjoy its protective effects
51. Improvements More nit-picking than real concerns Diuretics shouldn’t increase RKF even though they do increase urine output (unless volume is the issue!) EPO usage was only calculated at baseline and 6 months, much earlier than the study stopped follow-up. Maybe not the best measure of residual endocrine kidney function
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53. Future studies may be useful to assess interventions aimed at preserving residual renal function
54. As nephrologists, it is our responsibility to be advocates for the last few cc’s of GFR; they may be the difference between life and death…
More questions than answers- which function of the kidney is most important?
11% decreased mortality with ~ 1cc/min/1.73m2. 10L/wk=1cc/min/1.73m2
For each 1m./min/1.73m2 increase in eGFR was associated with a 12% lower mortality (RR 0.88) compared with zero rGFR
rGFR is calculated as average of Renal creatinine clearance and renal nitrogen clearance (BUN)
5L/wk/1.73m2 = .49 cc/min/1.73m2, again 12% reduced mortality for every .5 cc/min/1.73m2 residual renal function [here GFR= native kidney]
Entirely disappears when you factor in urine volume produced. Urine volume produced is the best prognosticator of mortality in PD patients. So maybe volume control and fluid shifting is more important than clearance
European descent, relatively healthy, older (mean age 66), LAST POINT= Prevalence, not incidence
65% lower mortality within two years if patient produces > 100cc/day urine
Delivered Kt/V split into quintiles in aneuric patients and in patients with RRF intact (urine>100cc/24h)
RR 0.44 (56% decreased mortality) per 1 unit increase in the 1-week rKt/V during follow-up of 1.7 yrs. Data collected at month#3 and every 6 months thereafter. RR calculated on having renal function at given time t/ time of death? Which rKt/V was used for each patient?
A positive Beta estimate indicates a beneficial effect; a negative Beta estimate indicates an unfavorable effect on a QoL dimension. For all dimensions shown, a higher rGFR was associated with a better QoL. For example, an increase in the rGFR with 10 mL/min/1.73 m 2was associated with an increase in the score for “Physical functioning” by 7.28. This difference on a scale ranging from 0 to 100 (Table 2) may be regarded as small but was highly significant (P = 0.0001). For the majority of the other dimensions the association with the rGFR was significant as well. The associations between pCrCl and QoL dimensions were either in a positive or negative direction, and no association was statistically significant at the 5% level.
Preserved urine output more likely to be white, have higher systolic BP, higher pulse pressure at baseline, but only more likely to be white by year one.
Late referral= < 4 mo between first nephrology evaluation and starting dialysis
D Demographic characteristics: age, race (white or other), sex, educational status (completed high school or not), marital status (married or not), and employment status (employed or not employed).
Highlight the statistically significant ones- most are not!