• Jenni Aittokallio, Panu Uusalo, Minna Kallioinen, and Mikko J Järvisalo.
• Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Division of Perioperative Services, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
• J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. 2020 Dec 1; 34 (12): 3329-3335.

ObjectiveAcute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy after cardiac surgery has an incidence of 2% to 15%, and mortality in affected patients approximates 50%. The authors aimed to study the determinants of poor prognosis in patients receiving continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) after cardiac surgery.DesignRetrospective, observational single-center study.SettingTertiary care, university hospital.ParticipantsCardiac surgery patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) needing postoperative CRRT between January 1, 2010, and September 31, 2019.InterventionsPredictors of mortality were examined using groupwide comparisons between ICU survivors versus nonsurvivors and univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards models.ResultsDuring the study period, 67 cardiac surgery patients without prior maintenance dialysis required CRRT postoperatively. ICU mortality was 47.7% and 90-day mortality was 58.2%. Only 37.3% of patients were alive at 1 year after surgery. Blood lactate at the start of dialysis was the most significant predictor of ICU and overall mortality. Eighty-seven percent of patients with lactate >3 mmol/L died in the ICU compared with 27.3% of patients with lactate ≤3 mmol/L (p < 0.0001). In patients with lactate exceeding 5.3 mmol/L, ICU mortality was 100%. In a stepwise multivariate Cox proportional hazards model, the association with mortality remained significant for lactate at the start of CRRT (per 1 mmol/L, hazard ratio [HR] 1.19 [95% confidence interval {CI} 1.11-1.28], p < 0.0001), troponin T on the first postoperative morning (per 0.1 µg/L, HR 1.004 [95% CI 1.001-1.008], p = 0.01), and 72-hour fluid balance (per 1000 mL, HR 1.12 [95% CI 1.04-1.21], p = 0.005).ConclusionBlood lactate at the start of dialysis was the most significant predictor of ICU and overall mortality in patients with CRRT after cardiac surgery.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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