• World Neurosurg · Jul 2021

    Urea-Creatinine Ratio (UCR) after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Association of Protein Catabolism with Complication Rate and Outcome.

    • Walid Albanna, Miriam Weiss, Michael Veldeman, Catharina Conzen, Tobias Schmidt, Christian Blume, Rachad Zayat, Hans Clusmann, Christian Stoppe, and Gerrit Alexander Schubert.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. Electronic address: walidalbanna@yahoo.de.
    • World Neurosurg. 2021 Jul 1; 151: e961-e971.

    ObjectiveThe urea-creatinine ratio (UCR) has been proposed as potential biomarker for critical illness-associated catabolism. Its role in the context of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) remains to be elucidated, which was the aim of the present study.MethodsWe enrolled 66 patients with aSAH with normal renal function and 36 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery as a control group for the effects of surgery. In patients with aSAH, the predictive or diagnostic value of early (day 0-2) and critical (day 5-7) UCRs was assessed with regard to delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI), DCI-related infarction, and clinical outcome after 12 months.ResultsPreoperatively, UCR was similar both groups. Within 2 days postoperatively, UCRs increased significantly in patients in the elective cardiac surgery group (P < 0.001) but decreased back to baseline on day 5-7 (P = 0.245), whereas UCRs in patients with aSAH increased to significantly greater levels on day 5-7 (P = 0.028). Greater early or critical UCRs were associated with poor clinical outcomes (P = 0.015) or DCI (P = 0.011), DCI-related infarction (P = 0.006), and poor clinical outcomes (P < 0.001) respectively. In multivariate analysis, there was an independent association between greater early UCRs and poor clinical outcomes (P = 0.026).ConclusionsIn this exploratory study of UCR in the context of aSAH, greater early values were predictive for a poor clinical outcome after 12 months, whereas greater critical values were associated with DCI, DCI-related infarctions, and poor clinical outcomes. The clinical implications as well as the pathophysiologic relevance of protein catabolism should be explored further in the context of aSAH.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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