Early Diagnosis as Strategy in Reducing the Incidence of Contrast-induced Nephropathy

Renal damage due to contrast media (CM) administration is one of the main complications of cardiac intervention and is called contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). Patients suffering from CIN have a high probability of developing acute renal failure. Today there is no treatment capable of reversing kidney damage, so the best strategy is prevention, by early diagnosis. In this regard, a line of research is currently being carried out focused on the identification of new markers capable of detecting susceptibility/predisposition to renal damage before the administration of a potentially nephrotoxic drug, even at doses that alone should not produce Kidney damage. This concept has been called predisposition to kidney damage. Taking into account all of the above, the objective of this work is to evaluate the ability of the new markers (previously identified in preclinical models) to detect the predisposition to the CIN before administering the CM.