Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical value of cystatin C (CyS C), kidney injury molecule-1 (Kim-1) and serum creatinine (SCr) in early warning of acute kidney injury (AKI) induced by cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) of congenital heart diseases. Methods A total of 100 patients hospitalized into our hospital from January to December 2014 for congenital heart diseases were chosen as study subjects. Among them 26 patients who had AKI after CPB were into group Ⅰ, and the remaining 74 patients without AKI were into group Ⅱ. The changes of CyS C, Kim-1, SCr and urinary production (UPD) were compared between the two groups before CPB and at each time point after CPB. Results Before CPB surgery, there was no significant difference in CyS C, Kim-1 or SCr between the two groups (P > 0.05). In the group Ⅱ, the post-operative CyS C, Kim-1 and SCr increased slightly compared with the preoperative values, the differences were not significant (P > 0.05). In the group Ⅰ, CyS C at 2 h after CPB significantly increased, Kim-1 at 6 h after CPB significantly increased, both of them reached the maximum at 12 h (P < 0.05); SCr began to rise after CPB, reached the peak at 12 h after CPB, after that it increased slowly (P < 0.05). At each time point after CPB, CyS C, Kim-1 and SCr of the group Ⅰ were significantly higher than those of the group Ⅱ (P < 0.05); while UPD was lower than that of the group Ⅱ (P < 0.05). The combined detection of KIM-1, Cys C and SCr had the biggest ROC area under the curve, which was 0.8563 and significantly higher than that of UPD and SCr (0.7135). Conclusions The occurrence of AKI is high in patients with congenital heart diseases (26%). CyS C and Kim-1 can significantly increase at the ultra-early time of AKI, but SCr increases quite slowly. Compared to the traditional combined detection of SCr and UPD, the combined detection of KIM-1, Cys C and SCr has a greater clinical value in early warning of acute kidney injury induced by CPB in patients with congenital heart diseases, it is worth promoting.