Evaluation of elevated creatinine

Última revisão: 13 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 14 Mar 2024

Resumo

Diagnósticos diferenciais

comuns

  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Diabetic nephropathy
  • Systemic vasculitis
  • Drug-related creatinine increase
  • Contrast-induced acute kidney injury
  • Shock
  • Volume depletion
  • Hypertension
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Preeclampsia
  • Acute interstitial nephritis
  • Acute tubular necrosis
  • Cardiac surgery
  • Nephrectomy
  • Renal transplant rejection
  • Biologic serum creatinine variation
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Incomuns

  • Renal vein thrombosis
  • Radiation therapy
  • Endogenous nephrotoxins (myoglobin, uric acid, calciphylaxis)
  • Renal artery stenosis
  • Traumatic renal infarction
  • Multiple cholesterol emboli syndrome
  • Obstructive uropathy
  • Creatine supplementation
  • Inherited kidney disease
  • Methodologic variations of measurement of creatinine
  • Assay-interfering substances
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Colaboradores

Autores

Michiko Shimada, MD, PhD, FASN
Michiko Shimada

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine, and Nephrology

Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine

Hirosaki

Japan

Declarações

MS declares that she has no competing interests.

Bhagwan Dass, MD, FACP, FASN
Bhagwan Dass

Professor of Medicine

University of Florida

Gainesville

FL

Declarações

BD declares that he has no competing interests.

A. Ahsan Ejaz, MD, FASN
A. Ahsan Ejaz

Professor of Medicine

Division of Nephrology

University of Maryland

VA Maryland Healthcare

Baltimore

MD

Declarações

AAE declares that he has no competing interests.

Agradecimentos

Dr Michiko Shimada, Dr Bhagwan Dass, and Dr A. Ahsan Ejaz would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Puneet Sood, a previous contributor to this topic.

Declarações

PS declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Janson Leung, MD

Consultant Nephrologist

Royal Derby Hospital

Derby

UK

Declarações

JL has been reimbursed by Abbott for attending several conferences. JL has also received a fee from Shire for attending an advisory board meeting.

Zvi Talor, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine

Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation

University of Florida

Gainesville

FL

Declarações

ZT declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

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Disclosures

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Principais artigos

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Acute Kidney Injury Work Group. KDIGO clinical practice guideline for acute kidney injury. Kidney inter Suppl. 2012 March;2(1):1-138.Texto completo

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes. KDIGO 2012 clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease. Jan 2013 [internet publication].Texto completo

American College of Radiology. ACR appropriateness criteria: renal failure. 2020 [internet publication].Texto completo

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