IL18 and acute kidney injury: Chen and colleagues reported that serum cystatin C, urine NGAL, and serum interleukin-18 (IL-18) played valuable roles in the early detection of AKI in a cardiac care unit (CCU) and that the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROCs) of serum cystatin C, urine NGAL, and serum IL-18 for AKI prediction were 0.895, 0.886, and 0.841, respectively.