• Lancet · Aug 2013

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Cardioprotective and prognostic effects of remote ischaemic preconditioning in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery: a single-centre randomised, double-blind, controlled trial.

    • Matthias Thielmann, Eva Kottenberg, Petra Kleinbongard, Daniel Wendt, Nilgün Gedik, Susanne Pasa, Vivien Price, Konstantinos Tsagakis, Markus Neuhäuser, Jürgen Peters, Heinz Jakob, and Gerd Heusch.
    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany.
    • Lancet. 2013 Aug 17;382(9892):597-604.

    BackgroundRemote ischaemic preconditioning has been associated with reduced risk of myocardial injury after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. We investigated the safety and efficacy of this procedure.MethodsEligible patients were those scheduled to undergo elective isolated first-time CABG surgery under cold crystalloid cardioplegia and cardiopulmonary bypass at the West-German Heart Centre, Essen, Germany, between April, 2008, and October, 2012. Patients were prospectively randomised to receive remote ischaemic preconditioning (three cycles of 5 min ischaemia and 5 min reperfusion in the left upper arm after induction of anaesthesia) or no ischaemic preconditioning (control). The primary endpoint was myocardial injury, as reflected by the geometric mean area under the curve (AUC) for perioperative concentrations of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) in serum in the first 72 h after CABG. Mortality was the main safety endpoint. Analysis was done in intention-to-treat and per-protocol populations. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01406678.Findings329 patients were enrolled. Baseline characteristics and perioperative data did not differ between groups. cTnI AUC was 266 ng/mL over 72 h (95% CI 237-298) in the remote ischaemic preconditioning group and 321 ng/mL (287-360) in the control group. In the intention-to-treat population, the ratio of remote ischaemic preconditioning to control for cTnI AUC was 0·83 (95% CI 0·70-0·97, p=0·022). cTnI release remained lower in the per-protocol analysis (0·79, 0·66-0·94, p=0·001). All-cause mortality was assessed over 1·54 (SD 1·22) years and was lower with remote ischaemic preconditioning than without (ratio 0·27, 95% CI 0·08-0·98, p=0·046).InterpretationRemote ischaemic preconditioning provided perioperative myocardial protection and improved the prognosis of patients undergoing elective CABG surgery.FundingGerman Research Foundation.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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