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Abstract
The field of nephrology has been slow in moving beyond the utilization of creatinine as an indicator for chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury (AKI). Early diagnosis and establishment of etiology, in particular, are important for treatment of AKI. In the setting of hospital-acquired AKI, tubular injury is more common, but acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) has a more treatable etiology. However, it is likely that AIN is under- or misdiagnosed due to current strategies that largely rely on clinical gestalt. In this issue of the JCI, Moledina and colleagues made an elegant case for the chemokine called C-X-C motif ligand 9 (CXCL9) as a biomarker of AIN. The authors used urine proteomics and tissue transcriptomics in patients with and without AIN to identify CXCL9 as a promising, noninvasive, diagnostic biomarker of AIN. These results have clinical implications that should catalyze future research and clinical trials in this space.
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Mark Canney, Edward G. Clark, Swapnil Hiremath
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