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CPE-003 · synthetic case CKD-FX-004
Acute creatinine rise before CKD staging
Acute creatinine rise before CKD staging
Purpose: Run AKI gate first
Inputs the engine received
Patient
- Age
- 55 years
Context
- Sex for equation
- male
Laboratory
- Serum creatinine series
- 1 mg/dL (2026-05-22) → 1.5 mg/dL (2026-05-24)
- UACR
- 22 mg/g
What the engine reports
Creatinine trajectory meets an AKI safety trigger. Urgent clinician review is required; the current value must not be used alone to finalize chronic CKD staging.
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: possible acute kidney injury. Creatinine trajectory suggests a possible acute process; chronic staging is deferred. Priority: urgent clinician review.
Why this pattern was identified
- Estimated GFR. 54.6 mL/min/1.73 m² (eGFRcr 2021, race-free), category G3a (45–59).
- Albuminuria. UACR 22 mg/g, category A1 (<30 mg/g).
Calculations
- eGFRcr (CKD-EPI 2021, race-free)
- 54.6 mL/min/1.73 m²
Creatinine-based.
Recommended next steps
For physician consideration. Urgent review always comes first.
- 1Urgent clinician review for possible AKI or AKI on CKD.AKI safety gate precedes CKD classification (KDIGO AKI).
- 2Consider cystatin C (eGFRcr-cys) before final isolated G3a classification, where available and clinically relevant.eGFRcr is the least reliable near the G2/G3a boundary without albuminuria.
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 · 5 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 1.5 mg/dL · age 55 · sex male
eGFRcr 2021 = 54.6 mL/min/1.73 m²
SAFE-AKI-001Possible acute kidney injury based on creatinine trajectory
Inputs: creatinine 1 → 1.5 mg/dL · rise ≥0.3 mg/dL within 48 h
acute_process_possible: current value must not be used alone to finalize chronic CKD staging
DET-001Kidney abnormality detected
Inputs: eGFR 54.6 (<60)
kidney_abnormality_detected: determine chronicity and evaluate acute causes before confirming CKD
GFR-003Suggest cystatin C / combined eGFR for isolated possible G3a
Inputs: eGFRcr 54.6 · UACR 22 mg/g · no other damage marker · cystatin C missing
Consider cystatin C for eGFRcr-cys confirmation before final isolated G3a classification
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.
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Live eGFR and CGA map
eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m²)
54.6
CKD-EPI 2021 creatinine, race-free
| GFR \ ALB | A1<30 | A230–300 | A3>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
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
More kidney cases
CKD-FX-001
Persistent moderately increased albuminuria with preserved GFR
Persistent moderately increased albuminuria with preserved GFR
CKD-FX-002
Persistent severely increased albuminuria with mildly decreased GFR
Persistent severely increased albuminuria with mildly decreased GFR
CKD-FX-003
Single reduced eGFR without chronicity
Single reduced eGFR without chronicity
CKD-FX-005
Isolated suspected G3a requiring cystatin C confirmation support
Isolated suspected G3a requiring cystatin C confirmation support
CKD-FX-006
Combined eGFR reclassification support
Combined eGFR reclassification support
CKD-FX-007
Confirmed CKD G3bA3 with diabetes
Confirmed CKD G3bA3 with diabetes
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