Twenty-eight patients (54.9%) experienced postoperative AKI. Among these patients, 15 (53.6%) had HTN and 13 (46.4%) had DM. Five patients (17.9%) had a history of CVD. There was no correlation between the occurrence of postoperative AKI and clinical variables except older age (
p = 0.026), male gender (
p = 0.043), and radical nephrectomy (
p = 0.002) compared to partial nephrectomy (
Table 4). Logistic regression analysis was conducted with variables of age, gender, HTN, DM, smoking, surgical method, preoperative proteinuria, preoperative eGFR, presence of pathologic diagnosis of non-neoplastic tissue, and semi-quantitative histologic score (
Table 5). It revealed that older age (
p = 0.029) and radical nephrectomy (
p = 0.012) were the independent risk factors for postoperative AKI. Data on eGFR at 3 to 36 months after surgery were obtained from 46 patients (90.2%); 16 patients (34.8%) had newly developed CKD stage 3 to 5 (eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m
2) after surgery. Four patients initially had CKD stage 3 at the time of nephrectomy. In three of four patients with pre-existing CKD, renal function was deteriorated by 27.5, 21.7, and 6.4 mL/min/1.73 m
2 reduction of eGFR. Among the 19 patients who had
de novo or accelerated CKD, 14 (73.7%) experienced postoperative AKI. The prevalence of CKD was significantly higher in patients with postoperative AKI than those without AKI (58.3% vs. 22.7%,
p = 0.019), in patients with preoperative proteinuria than those without proteinuria (75% vs. 30.3%,
p = 0.015), in patients who underwent radical nephrectomy versus partial nephrectomy (54.3% vs. 0%,
p = 0.001), in patients with abnormal pathologic diagnosis than those without diagnosis (51.5% vs. 15.4%,
p = 0.044), and in patients who have lower preoperative eGFR (
p = 0.002) and higher semi-quantitative histologic score (
p = 0.002). Clinical characteristics between the patients with or without CKD are compared in
Table 6. Since no one has developed CKD in partial nephrectomized patients, we determined independent risk factors for CKD in radical nephrectomized patients. Cox regression analysis with variables of age, HTN, DM, smoking status, preoperative proteinuria, postoperative AKI, preoperative eGFR, presence of pathologic diagnosis of non-neoplastic kidney, and semi-quantitative histologic score was done. In this study, preoperative eGFR (hazard ratio [HR], 0.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.92 to 0.98;
p = 0.004), postoperative AKI (HR, 7.03; 95% CI, 2.01 to 24.61;
p = 0.002), and semi-quantitative histologic score (HR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.00 to 1.50;
p = 0.047) were the independent predictors for CKD in radial nephrectomized patients. Characteristics of 19 patients who had
de novo or accelerated CKD are shown in
Table 7.