• Ahmed Mukhtar, Ihab Mahmoud, Gihan Obayah, Ahmed Hasanin, Fawzia Aboul-Fetouh, Hany Dabous, Mohamed Bahaa, Amr Abdelaal, Mohamed Fathy, and El Meteini Mahmoud M Surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt..
• Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: Ahmed.Mukhtar@kasralainy.edu.eg.
• J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. 2015 Jan 1; 29 (3): 678-83.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of intraoperative infusion with terlipressin on the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).DesignRetrospective case-controlled study.SettingGovernment hospital.ParticipantsThe medical records of 303 patients who underwent LDLT were reviewed retrospectively.InterventionsPatients were divided into 2 groups on the basis of intraoperative administration of terlipressin. The primary outcome was AKI, as defined by the Acute Kidney Injury Network criteria. Secondary outcomes included the requirement for postoperative dialysis and in-hospital mortality.Measurements And Main ResultsThe incidence of AKI was 38% (n = 115); AKI occurred in 24 (24.2%) patients who received terlipressin versus 91 (44.6%) in the control group (p = 0.001). The incidence of postoperative dialysis was 9.2% (n = 28). Postoperative dialysis was needed by 8 patients (8.1%) in the terlipressin group versus 20 patients (9.8%) in the control group (p = 0.62). Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that terlipressin protected against AKI (odds ratio [OR], 0.4; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.2-0.8; p = 0.013) but not the need for dialysis (OR, 0.7; 95% CI, 0.2-2.2; p = 0.53) or the in-hospital mortality (OR, 1.1; 95% CI, 0.5-2.3; p = 0.7). Adjustment, using the propensity score, did not alter the association between the use of terlipressin and AKI reduction (OR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.22-0.89; p = 0.03).ConclusionThese results suggested that intraoperative terlipressin therapy is associated with significant reductions in the risk of AKI in LDLT patients.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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