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Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiovascular surgery (CVS) infers high morbidity and mortality and may be caused by thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). This study aimed to assess incidence, risk factors, kidney function, and mortality of patients with a postoperative TMA as possible caus...

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Autores principales: Grigorescu, Melissa, Kamla, Christine-Elena, Wassilowsky, Dietmar, Joskowiak, Dominik, Peterss, Sven, Kemmner, Stephan, Pichlmaier, Maximilian, Hagl, Christian, Fischereder, Michael, Schönermarck, Ulf
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7565159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32911781
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9092900
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author Grigorescu, Melissa
Kamla, Christine-Elena
Wassilowsky, Dietmar
Joskowiak, Dominik
Peterss, Sven
Kemmner, Stephan
Pichlmaier, Maximilian
Hagl, Christian
Fischereder, Michael
Schönermarck, Ulf
author_facet Grigorescu, Melissa
Kamla, Christine-Elena
Wassilowsky, Dietmar
Joskowiak, Dominik
Peterss, Sven
Kemmner, Stephan
Pichlmaier, Maximilian
Hagl, Christian
Fischereder, Michael
Schönermarck, Ulf
author_sort Grigorescu, Melissa
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description Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiovascular surgery (CVS) infers high morbidity and mortality and may be caused by thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). This study aimed to assess incidence, risk factors, kidney function, and mortality of patients with a postoperative TMA as possible cause of severe AKI following cardiovascular surgery. Methods: We analyzed retrospectively all patients admitted to the ICU after a cardiovascular procedure between 01/2018 and 03/2019 with severe AKI and need for renal replacement therapy (RRT). TMA was defined as post-surgery-AKI including need for RRT, hemolytic anemia, and thrombocytopenia. TMA patients were compared to patients with AKI requiring RRT without TMA. Results: Out of 893 patients, 69 (7.7%) needed RRT within one week after surgery due to severe AKI. Among those, 15 (21.7%) fulfilled TMA criteria. Aortic surgery suggested an increased risk for TMA (9/15 (60.0%) vs. 7/54 (31.5%), OR 3.26, CI 1.0013-10.64). Ten TMA patients required plasmapheresis and/or eculizumab, and five recovered spontaneously. Preoperative kidney function was significantly better in TMA patients than in controls (eGFR 92 vs. 60.5 mL/min, p = 0.004). However, postoperative TMA resulted in a more pronounced GFR loss (ΔeGFR −54 vs. −17 mL/min, p = 0.062). There were no deaths in the TMA group. Conclusion: Our findings suggest TMA as an important differential diagnosis of severe AKI following cardiovascular surgery, which may be triggered by aortic surgery. Therefore, early diagnosis and timely treatment of TMA could reduce kidney damage and improve mortality of AKI following cardiovascular surgery, which should be further investigated.
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spelling pubmed-75651592020-10-26 Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study Grigorescu, Melissa Kamla, Christine-Elena Wassilowsky, Dietmar Joskowiak, Dominik Peterss, Sven Kemmner, Stephan Pichlmaier, Maximilian Hagl, Christian Fischereder, Michael Schönermarck, Ulf J Clin Med Article Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiovascular surgery (CVS) infers high morbidity and mortality and may be caused by thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). This study aimed to assess incidence, risk factors, kidney function, and mortality of patients with a postoperative TMA as possible cause of severe AKI following cardiovascular surgery. Methods: We analyzed retrospectively all patients admitted to the ICU after a cardiovascular procedure between 01/2018 and 03/2019 with severe AKI and need for renal replacement therapy (RRT). TMA was defined as post-surgery-AKI including need for RRT, hemolytic anemia, and thrombocytopenia. TMA patients were compared to patients with AKI requiring RRT without TMA. Results: Out of 893 patients, 69 (7.7%) needed RRT within one week after surgery due to severe AKI. Among those, 15 (21.7%) fulfilled TMA criteria. Aortic surgery suggested an increased risk for TMA (9/15 (60.0%) vs. 7/54 (31.5%), OR 3.26, CI 1.0013-10.64). Ten TMA patients required plasmapheresis and/or eculizumab, and five recovered spontaneously. Preoperative kidney function was significantly better in TMA patients than in controls (eGFR 92 vs. 60.5 mL/min, p = 0.004). However, postoperative TMA resulted in a more pronounced GFR loss (ΔeGFR −54 vs. −17 mL/min, p = 0.062). There were no deaths in the TMA group. Conclusion: Our findings suggest TMA as an important differential diagnosis of severe AKI following cardiovascular surgery, which may be triggered by aortic surgery. Therefore, early diagnosis and timely treatment of TMA could reduce kidney damage and improve mortality of AKI following cardiovascular surgery, which should be further investigated. MDPI 2020-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7565159/ /pubmed/32911781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9092900 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Grigorescu, Melissa
Kamla, Christine-Elena
Wassilowsky, Dietmar
Joskowiak, Dominik
Peterss, Sven
Kemmner, Stephan
Pichlmaier, Maximilian
Hagl, Christian
Fischereder, Michael
Schönermarck, Ulf
Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study
title Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study
title_full Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study
title_fullStr Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study
title_full_unstemmed Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study
title_short Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiovascular Surgery: Thrombotic Microangiopathy as a Differential Diagnosis to Ischemia Reperfusion Injury. A Retrospective Study
title_sort severe acute kidney injury in cardiovascular surgery: thrombotic microangiopathy as a differential diagnosis to ischemia reperfusion injury. a retrospective study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7565159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32911781
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9092900
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