Abstract:Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of postoperative renal resistive index for acute renal injury after hip arthroplasty in elderly patients. Methods From December 2015 to December 2016, 91 elderly patients after hip arthroplasty were enrolled in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), and the renal arterial resistive index was measured by ultrasonography. All patients were divided into no AKI group and AKI group within 7 days. The value of RI was compared between the two groups. At the same time, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of RI and serum creatinine (Scr) were drawn, and the area under the curve was compared. Results Among the 91 patients included in the study, 47 were in no AKI group and 44 in AKI group. The postoperative renal RI in AKI group (0.74 ± 0.03) was higher than that in no AKI group (0.62 ± 0.04), and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The area under the ROC curve of AKI was 0.9547 (95% CI: 0.912, 0.980) and 0.7783 (95% CI: 0.681, 0.876), respectively. Conclusion The higher value of renal RI in elderly patients after hip arthroplasty was related to AKI, so renal RI can be used as a diagnostic indicator of AKI.