Nephrol Dial Transplant (2003) 18: 543-551
© 2003 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association
Measurement of tubular enzymuria facilitates early detection of acute renal impairment in the intensive care unit
1 Conjoint Renal Laboratory, Queensland Health Pathology Service, 3 Intensive Care Unit and 2 Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia and 4 Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Background. Early detection of acute tubular necrosis (ATN) could permit implementation of salvage therapies and improve patient outcomes in acute renal failure (ARF). The utility of single and combined measurements of urinary tubular enzymes in predicting ARF in critically ill patients has not been evaluated using the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) plot method.
Methods. In this prospective pilot study, 26 consecutive critically ill adult patients admitted to the intensive-care unit were studied. Urine samples were collected twice daily for up to 7 days. ARF was defined as an increase in plasma creatinine of 
50% and 0.15 mmol/l. ROC plot analysis was applied to the tubular marker data to derive optimum cut-offs for ARF.
Results. Four of the 26 study subjects (15.4%) developed ARF. Indexed to urinary creatinine concentration, 
glutamyl transpeptidase (GT), alkaline phosphatase (AP), N-acetyl-glucosaminidase (NAG), and 
- and 
-glutathione S-transferase (- and -GST) but not lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were higher in the ARF group on admission (P<0.05). GT, and - and -GST remained elevated at 24 h. The onset of ARF based on changes in plasma creatinine varied from 12 h to 4 days (median 36 h). ROC plot analysis showed that GT, -GST, -GST, AP and NAG had excellent discriminating power for ARF (AUC 0.950, 0.929, 0.893, 0.863 and 0.845, respectively). The discriminating strength of creatinine clearance, while lower, was still significant (AUC 0.796). Positive and negative predictive values for ARF on admission were 67/100% for GT, 67/90% for AP, 60/95% for -GST, and 67/100% for -GST indices. Positive and negative predictive values for ARF for creatinine clearance 
23 ml/min were 50 and 91%, respectively. Creatinine clearances tended to be lower in ARF than in non-ARF patients on admission (P=0.06) and were significantly lower (P=0.008) after 12 h. Plasma urea and fractional sodium excretion were unhelpful.
Conclusions. Tubular enzymuria on admission to the ICU is useful in predicting ARF. The cheapness and wide availability of automated assays for GT and AP suggests that estimation of these enzymes in random urine samples may be particularly useful for identifying patients at high risk of ARF.
Keywords: acute renal failure; acute tubular necrosis; alkaline phosphatase; creatinine clearance; creatinine; -glutamyl transpeptidase; intensive care; tubular markers
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Z. Endre, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Clinical Sciences Building, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston 4029, Queensland, Australia. Email: Z.Endre{at}medicine.herston.uq.edu.au
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