• Heart, lung & circulation · Oct 2010

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Perioperative metabolic therapy improves redox status and outcomes in cardiac surgery patients: a randomised trial.

    • Jee-Yoong Leong, Juliana van der Merwe, Salvatore Pepe, Michael Bailey, Anthony Perkins, Robyn Lymbury, Donald Esmore, Silvana Marasco, and Franklin Rosenfeldt.
    • Cardiac Surgical Research Unit, Alfred Hospital, Department of Surgery Monash University, Baker IDI Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
    • Heart Lung Circ. 2010 Oct 1;19(10):584-91.

    ObjectivePerioperative therapy with antioxidants and metabolic substrates has the potential to reduce oxidative stress and improve recovery from cardiac surgery, particularly in elderly and high risk cases. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of perioperative metabolic therapy at a biochemical, clinical and economic level in cardiac surgical patients.MethodsPatients (n=117, mean age 65 ± 1.0 years, 74% male) undergoing elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and/or valve surgery in 2004-2006 were randomised to receive in double blinded fashion, while on the waiting list for surgery (approximately two months) and one month after surgery, either metabolic therapy (coenzyme Q(10), magnesium orotate, lipoic acid, omega-3 fatty acids and selenium) or placebo. Biochemical and clinical outcomes were assessed.ResultsCardiac surgery increased oxidative stress and decreased plasma levels of key antioxidants. Metabolic therapy for a mean of 76 ± 7.5 days increased antioxidant levels preoperatively so that the adverse effect of surgery on redox status was attenuated. Metabolic therapy reduced plasma troponin I, 24 hours postoperatively from 1.5 (1.2-1.8) (geometric mean 95% CI) μg/L, to 2.1 (1.8-2.6) μg/L (P=0.003) and shortened the mean length of postoperative hospital stay by 1.2 days from 8.1 (7.5-8.7) to 6.9 (6.4-7.4) days (P=0.004) and reduced hospital costs. Metabolic therapy was inexpensive and had no clinically significant side effects.ConclusionsPerioperative metabolic therapy for cardiac surgery is safe and inexpensive and is associated with improved redox status, reduced myocardial damage, and shortened length of postoperative hospital stay.Copyright © 2010 Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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