Abstract
Background
Posterior urethral valves (PUVs) account for 17% of pediatric renal failure. The management of pregnancies involving fetuses with PUV is hampered by the fact that current clinical parameters obtained from fetal ultrasound and/or fetal urine biochemistry are insufficient to predict postnatal renal function. We previously have developed a fetal urine peptide signature (12PUV) that predicted with high precision postnatal renal failure at 2 years of age in fetuses with PUV. Here, we evaluated the accuracy of this signature to predict postnatal renal outcome in fetuses with PUV in an independent single-center study.
Methods
Thirty-three women carrying fetuses with suspected PUV were included. Twenty-five fetuses received vesicoamniotic shunts during pregnancy. PUV was confirmed postnatally in 23 patients. Of those 23 fetuses, 2 were lost in follow-up. Four and 3 patients died in the pre- and perinatal periods, respectively. Follow-up renal function at 6 months of age was obtained for the remaining 14 patients. The primary outcome was early renal failure, defined by an eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 before 6 months of age or pre- or perinatal death.
Results
The peptide signature predicted postnatal renal outcome in postnatally confirmed PUV fetuses with an AUC of 0.94 (95%CI 0.74–1.0) and an accuracy of 90% (95%CI 78–100). The signature predicted postnatal renal outcome for the suspected PUV cases with an AUC of 0.89 (95%CI 0.72–0.97) and an accuracy of 84% (95%CI 71–97).
Conclusions
This single-center study confirms the predictive power of the previously identified 12PUV fetal urinary peptide signature.
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SD and JPS are members of the European Reference Network for Rare Kidney Diseases (ERKNet)– Project ID No 739532.
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The study was supported by Polish Mothers Memorial Hospital Research Institute (internal grant number 2016/IV/54-GW), by the “Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale” (grant number DEQ20170336759) and by the “Agence de la Biomédecine” (METAPhOR project).
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Normalized abundance of each of the ~5616 fetal urinary peptides in each sample. (XLSX 1115 kb)
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Buffin-Meyer, B., Tkaczyk, M., Stańczyk, M. et al. A single-center study to evaluate the efficacy of a fetal urine peptide signature predicting postnatal renal outcome in fetuses with posterior urethral valves. Pediatr Nephrol 35, 469–475 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-019-04390-9
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