• Int. J. Cardiol. · Oct 2014

    Multicenter Study

    Hemoglobin and renal replacement therapy after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery: a predictive score from the Cardiac Surgery Registry of Puglia.

    • Domenico Paparella, Pietro Guida, Valerio Mazzei, Carmine Carbone, Giuseppe Speziale, Vitantonio Fanelli, Salvatore Zaccaria, Cataldo Labriola, and Giuseppe Scrascia.
    • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant (D.E.T.O.), University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy. Electronic address: domenico.paparella@uniba.it.
    • Int. J. Cardiol. 2014 Oct 20;176(3):866-73.

    BackgroundAcute Kidney Injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery is a complication influencing postoperative outcome. Preoperative hemoglobin is a predictor of postoperative AKI. We aimed to identify preoperative predictors of Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) and to develop a new risk-scoring system including hemoglobin to better stratify the risk of events.MethodsWe evaluated 3288 consecutive patients of the Regional Cardiac Surgery Registry of Puglia operated in 2011-2012. Chronic dialysis and renal transplantation patients were excluded. Primary outcome was post-operative RRT incidence.ResultsThe study sample was divided in two cohorts: 1642 patients (70 RRT) operated during the year 2011 as derivation cohort and 1646 patients (69 RRT) of the year 2012 as validation. In a multivariable logistic regression model using a stepwise method, six preoperative risk factors were associated with RRT in the derivation cohort: creatinine clearance, preoperative hemoglobin, neurological dysfunction, left ventricular ejection fraction, urgency and combined procedures (discrimination c-index 0.844 and 0.818 in the validation cohort). Scoring system included risk factors obtained from derivation cohort adjusting their relative weight with updated rounded coefficients in the validation cohort: creatinine clearance<50ml/min (1 point), hemoglobin≤12.5g/dl (1 point), left ventricular ejection fraction≤30% (1 point), urgent operation (1 point), emergency-salvage surgery (2 points), and combined procedures (1 point). In both cohorts, outcomes were strongly correlated with score points.ConclusionsOur simple bedside prognostic score demonstrates good performance in predicting RRT. Hemoglobin plays an important role and future studies will clarify if preoperative anemia correction will lead to decreased RRT risk.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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