Synthetic data only. Never enter patient information; nothing is sent or stored. For clinicians. Not FDA cleared.

CPE-003 · synthetic case CKD-EX-03

Oliguria meets an AKI trigger

Urine output below 0.5 mL/kg/h for 8 hours.

Synthetic · no real patientExtended demonstration caseKidney engine v1.2.0

Purpose: Urine output below 0.5 mL/kg/h for 8 hours.

Inputs the engine received

Patient

Age
59 years
Urine output hours below threshold
8 h

Context

Sex for equation
male

Laboratory

Serum creatinine
1.4 mg/dL
Urine output ml kg h
0.3 mL/kg/h

What the engine reports

Detected clinical pattern

Possible Acute Process — Do Not Stage as CKD

The creatinine trajectory meets an acute kidney injury trigger. The current value must not be used alone to finalize chronic CKD staging.

  • Chronicity: Acute process possible

Clinical summary

Priority safety finding: urine-output aki trigger. Creatinine trajectory suggests a possible acute process; chronic staging is deferred. Priority: urgent clinician review.

Why this pattern was identified

  • Estimated GFR. 57.9 mL/min/1.73 m² (eGFRcr 2021, race-free), category G3a (45–59).

Calculations

eGFRcr (CKD-EPI 2021, race-free)
57.9 mL/min/1.73 m²

Creatinine-based.

Recommended next steps

For physician consideration. Urgent review always comes first.

  1. 1Immediate clinician evaluation for oliguria.

Missing information

  • UACR (required for the A category, risk assessment and a complete classification).

Why it matters

A rapid creatinine rise can reflect reversible injury. Staging chronic disease on an acute value risks misclassification and delays evaluation of the acute cause.

Evidence and rule trace · 4 rules

DQ-004eGFR calculation assay provenance

Inputs: creatinine assay IDMS traceability not confirmed

eGFR computed with unknown/non-confirmed standardized assay; interpret with assay provenance visible.

GFR-001Compute initial adult race-free creatinine eGFR

Inputs: creatinine 1.4 mg/dL · age 59 · sex male

eGFRcr 2021 = 57.9 mL/min/1.73 m²

SAFE-AKI-002Possible AKI based on urine output when available

Inputs: urine output 0.3 mL/kg/h for ≥6 h

acute_process_possible

DET-001Kidney abnormality detected

Inputs: eGFR 57.9 (<60)

kidney_abnormality_detected: determine chronicity and evaluate acute causes before confirming CKD

Evidence

  • R1 · KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease. Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), 2024.
  • R3 · eGFR Equations for Adults: 2021 CKD-EPI creatinine and creatinine-cystatin C race-free equations. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) / NIH, 2026.
  • R4 · NKF/ASN recommendations implementing race-free CKD-EPI equations. National Kidney Foundation / American Society of Nephrology, 2021.
  • R7 · KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury. KDIGO, 2012.

Physician adjudication required. Clinical decision support for physician review. Criteria-based status is not a probability. Findings require physician adjudication and correlation with the complete clinical context. Validation-only release: not for production clinical use.

Change the values

The same engine, starting from this case. Change any value and watch the pattern and the rule trace react.

Live eGFR and CGA map

eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m²)

57.9

CKD-EPI 2021 creatinine, race-free

GFR \ ALBA1<30A230–300A3>300
G1≥90
G260–89
G3a45–59
G3b30–44
G415–29
G5<15

No cell is shown until there are data. Colors follow the KDIGO risk heat map: green low, yellow moderately increased, orange high, red very high.

Kidney functionAdd a prior result with dates to test chronicity
Sex for the equation

Switches the engine to the combined eGFRcr-cys equation.

Albuminuria
Chemistry
Kidney findings and red flags
Context
Transient albuminuria confounders
Creatinine may be unreliable
Complications (persistent)
Therapy
Documented history and special populations

This case also carries values that have no field here: urine_output_ml_kg_h, urine_output_hours_below_threshold. They are included in the calculation until you clear the form.

Live result · computed in your browser

Detected clinical pattern

Possible Acute Process — Do Not Stage as CKD

The creatinine trajectory meets an acute kidney injury trigger. The current value must not be used alone to finalize chronic CKD staging.

  • Chronicity: Acute process possible

Clinical summary

Priority safety finding: urine-output aki trigger. Creatinine trajectory suggests a possible acute process; chronic staging is deferred. Priority: urgent clinician review.

Why this pattern was identified

  • Estimated GFR. 57.9 mL/min/1.73 m² (eGFRcr 2021, race-free), category G3a (45–59).

Calculations

eGFRcr (CKD-EPI 2021, race-free)
57.9 mL/min/1.73 m²

Creatinine-based.

Recommended next steps

For physician consideration. Urgent review always comes first.

  1. 1Immediate clinician evaluation for oliguria.

Missing information

  • UACR (required for the A category, risk assessment and a complete classification).

Why it matters

A rapid creatinine rise can reflect reversible injury. Staging chronic disease on an acute value risks misclassification and delays evaluation of the acute cause.

Evidence and rule trace · 4 rules

DQ-004eGFR calculation assay provenance

Inputs: creatinine assay IDMS traceability not confirmed

eGFR computed with unknown/non-confirmed standardized assay; interpret with assay provenance visible.

GFR-001Compute initial adult race-free creatinine eGFR

Inputs: creatinine 1.4 mg/dL · age 59 · sex male

eGFRcr 2021 = 57.9 mL/min/1.73 m²

SAFE-AKI-002Possible AKI based on urine output when available

Inputs: urine output 0.3 mL/kg/h for ≥6 h

acute_process_possible

DET-001Kidney abnormality detected

Inputs: eGFR 57.9 (<60)

kidney_abnormality_detected: determine chronicity and evaluate acute causes before confirming CKD

Evidence

  • R1 · KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease. Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), 2024.
  • R3 · eGFR Equations for Adults: 2021 CKD-EPI creatinine and creatinine-cystatin C race-free equations. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) / NIH, 2026.
  • R4 · NKF/ASN recommendations implementing race-free CKD-EPI equations. National Kidney Foundation / American Society of Nephrology, 2021.
  • R7 · KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury. KDIGO, 2012.

Physician adjudication required. Clinical decision support for physician review. Criteria-based status is not a probability. Findings require physician adjudication and correlation with the complete clinical context. Validation-only release: not for production clinical use.

More kidney cases

All kidney cases

The Clinical Intelligence Layer — transforming fragmented clinical information into structured intelligence for clinician review and action.

Contact Biod