Administration of prophylactic glucocorticoids has been suggested as a strategy to reduce postoperative AKI and other adverse events after cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. In this post hoc analysis of a large placebo-controlled randomized trial of dexamethasone in 4465 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery, we examined severe AKI, defined as use of RRT, as a primary outcome. Secondary outcomes were doubling of serum creatinine level or AKI-RRT, as well as AKI-RRT or in-hospital mortality (RRT/death). The primary outcome occurred in ten patients (0.4%) in the dexamethasone group and in 23 patients (1.0%) in the placebo group (relative risk, 0.44; 95% confidence interval, 0.19 to 0.96). In stratified analyses, the strongest signal for potential benefit of dexamethasone was in patients with an eGFR,15 ml/min per 1.73 m2. In conclusion, comparedwith placebo, intraoperative dexamethasone appeared to reduce the incidence of severe AKI after cardiac surgery in those with advanced CKD.
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Jacob, K. A., Leaf, D. E., Dieleman, J. M., Van Dijk, D., Nierich, A. P., Rosseel, P. M., … Waikar, S. S. (2015). Intraoperative high-dose dexamethasone and severe AKI after cardiac surgery. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 26(12), 2947–2951. https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2014080840
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