AKI risk biomarkers may be ‘as early as it gets’
June 2015—Last fall, the FDA cleared Astute Medical’s NephroCheck to pinpoint critically ill adults likely to manifest moderate to severe acute kidney injury within 12 hours. The urine biomarker test’s investigators believe NephroCheck will give clinicians the early warning signs they need to head off impending cases of AKI, though it remains to be seen whether that hoped-for prevention will bear out in clinical outcomes studies. One important laboratory hurdle to widespread use of the test is that it is performed on a countertop instrument separate from the automated line used for all other urinalyses.