Acute Post-cardiac Surgery Renal Failure: Prevention Through Individualized Intensive Hemodynamic Management (PrevHemAKI)

Acute Post-cardiac Surgery Renal Failure: Prevention Through Individualized Intensive Hemodynamic Management and Evaluation of Prognostic Biomarkers

BACKGROUND: The incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing cardiac surgery can reach 35% and between 2 and 5% require kidney replacement therapy during the AKI episode. The development of AKI n this context is independently associated with higher long-term mortality (5-10 years). In addition, there is strong evidence that an episode of AKI in the hospital increases the risk of developing chronic kidney disease in the medium-long term. On the other hand, once AKI has been recovered according to creatinine values, there are no established biomarkers to predict patients at risk of progression to chronic kidney disease, which will allow us to increase nephroprotection and surveillance measures in this group of patients.

STUDY DESIGN: Open-label randomized unicentric prospective study of patients undergoing valvular replacement heart surgery ± coronary bypass with acute kidney injury (AKI) risk >30% according to the Leicester Cardiosurgery scale. Patients will be randomized 1:1 in two groups: standard hemodynamic management or intensive hemodynamic management based on premorbid mean perfusion pressure (MPP). The interventional period will span from intra-operation until the first 24 hours postoperative. The incidence of AKI will be evaluated according to KDIGO criteria between 48 hours and 7 days after surgery. Patients will be followed for one year. Biomarkers of mitochondrial damage will be analyzed at various points during the follow-up to patients presenting AKI.

INTERVENTIONS:

A) Group 1/Intensive management: Intra-surgical values of ± 25% basal MAP will be maintained and once in the ICU an algorithm corresponding to group 1 based on cardiac index and ± 25% MPP will be followed for 24 hours.

B) Group 2/Standard management: MAP during surgery will be maintained > 60 mmHg according to usual protocol. Once in ICU, during the first 24 hours an algorithm corresponding to group 2 based on cardiac index, MAP and CVP will be followed.

Biomarkers of mitochondrial damage will be determined in urine in patients in both groups only in patients developing AKI according to KDIGO guidelines between 48h and 7 days.

EXPECTED RESULTS:A 50% reduction in the incidence of AKI in the intervention group compared to the control group is expected. At the same time, markers of mitochondrial damage are expected to be validated in our cohort as biomarkers of AKI progression and to investigate its usefulness as biomarkers of transition to Chronic kidney disease.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Acute Kidney Injury
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Intensive management

Detailed Description

BACKGROUND:

The incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing cardiac surgery can reach 35% and between 2 and 5% require kidney replacement therapy during the AKI episode. The development of AKI n this context is independently associated with higher long-term mortality (5-10 years). In addition, there is strong evidence that an episode of AKI in the hospital increases the risk of developing chronic kidney disease in the medium-long term. That is why the prevention of AKI is essential to reduce the morbidity that these patients suffer in the hospital and out-of-hospital environment. On the other hand, once AKI has been recovered according to creatinine values, there are no established biomarkers to predict patients at risk of progression to chronic kidney disease, which will allow us to increase nephroprotection and surveillance measures in this group of patients.

STUDY DESIGN:

Open-label randomized unicentric prospective study of patients undergoing valvular replacement heart surgery ± coronary bypass with acute kidney injury (AKI) risk >30% according to the Leicester Cardiosurgery scale. Patients will be randomized 1:1 in two groups: standard hemodynamic management or intensive hemodynamic management based on premorbid mean perfusion pressure (MPP). The interventional period will span from intra-operation until the first 24 hours postoperative. The incidence of AKI will be evaluated according to KDIGO criteria between 48 hours and 7 days after surgery. Patients will be followed for one year. Biomarkers of mitochondrial damage will be analyzed at various points during the follow-up to patients presenting AKI. Intention to treat population will be defined as patients who sign informed consent and undergo planned surgery.

INTERVENTIONS-ANALYSIS:

A) Group 1/Intensive management: Baseline mean blood pressure (MAP) and central venous pressure (CVP) will be measured to calculate baseline mean perfusion pressure (MPP). Intra-surgical values of ± 25% basal MAP will be maintained and once in the ICU an algorithm corresponding to group 1 based on cardiac index and ± 25% MPP will be followed for 24 hours.

B) Group 2/Standard management: MAP during surgery will be maintained > 60 mmHg according to usual protocol. Once in ICU, during the first 24 hours an algorithm corresponding to group 2 based on cardiac index, MAP and CVP will be followed. Biomarkers of mitochondrial damage will be determined in urine in patients in both groups only in patients developing AKI according to KDIGO guidelines between 48h and 7 days. The following variables will be assessed in both groups: accumulated fluid balance in first 24 hours, ICU /hospitalization length of stay, days with vasoactive support, MAKE (Major Adverse Kidney Events: mortality, need for renal replacement therapy, persistent renal dysfunction) at 30, 90 and 365 days and other AKI episodes at one year. In the patients who develop AKI, urinary markers of mitochondrial injury will also be measured at 30 days.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

A 50% reduction in the incidence of AKI in the intervention group compared to the control group is expected. At the same time, markers of mitochondrial damage are expected to be validated in our cohort as biomarkers of AKI progression and to investigate its usefulness as biomarkers of transition to Chronic kidney disease.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 98
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Alícia Molina Andújar, MD; Phone Number: 2050 932 27 54 00; Email: amolinaa@clinic.cat

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Barcelona, Spain, 08036
    • Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing elective or urgent heart surgery with extracorporeal circulation at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
• Valve and/or aortocoronary bypass surgery
• Risk of AKI >30% according to the Leicester Cardiosurgery scale

Exclusion Criteria:

• End-stage kidney disease stage V
• Patients with AKI in the 7 days prior to surgery
• Interstitial glomerulonephritis or vasculitis
• Pregnancy
• Kidney transplant
• Endocarditis
• Patients with mechanical assistance devices (ECMO, LVAD, RVAD, IABP)
• Inclusion in another clinical intervention test during the intervention period
• Emergence surgery
• Patients in need of pressure-directed therapy of cerebral infusion.
• Constrictive pericarditis

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Intensive management; Baseline mean blood pressure (MAP) and central venous pressure (CVP) will be measured to calculate baseline mean perfusion pressure. Intra-surgical values of ± 25% basal MAP will be maintained and once in the ICU an algorithm corresponding to group 1 based on cardiac index and MPP will be followed for 24 hours.	Behavioral: Intensive management; Management based on premorbid MAP and MPP
No Intervention: Standard management; MAP during surgery will be maintained > 60 mmHg according to usual protocol. Once in ICU, during the first 24 hours an algorithm corresponding to group 2 based on cardiac index, MAP and CVP will be followed.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
AKI incidence	Reduction in the incidence of AKI	18 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Major kidney adverse events (MAKE) at 30, 90, 365 days	To evaluate the incidence of MAKE in both groups	12 months
ICU and hospital length of stay	Days of ICU and Hospital stay	18 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
• Collaborators: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer; Hospital Sant Joan de Deu
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Esteban Poch, PhD, MD, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 14, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): September 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 27, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 1, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): July 2, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 1, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 29, 2024
• Last Verified: February 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Kidney Diseases; Urologic Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications; Urogenital Diseases; Male Urogenital Diseases; Renal Insufficiency; Acute Kidney Injury
• Other Study ID Numbers: PrevHemAKI

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No