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ArticleAnesthesiology2016

Platelet Counts, Acute Kidney Injury, and Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery.

Miklos D Kertai, Shan Zhou, Jörn A Karhausen, Mary Cooter, Edmund Jooste, Yi-Ju Li, William D White, Solomon Aronson, Mihai V Podgoreanu, Jeffrey Gaca and 5 more

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60 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Miklos D KertaiFrom the Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology (M.D.K., S.Z., J.A.K., M.C., E.J., W.D.W., S.A., M.V.P., I.J.W., J.H.L., M.S.-S., J.P.M.), Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Molecular Physiology Institute (Y.-J.L.), Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery (J.G.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; and Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (M.L.F.).
Shan Zhou
Jörn A Karhausen
Mary Cooter
Edmund Jooste
Yi-Ju Li
William D White
Solomon Aronson
Mihai V Podgoreanu
Jeffrey Gaca
Ian J Welsby
Jerrold H Levy
Mark Stafford-Smith
Joseph P Mathew
Manuel L Fontes

Funding

Lidocaine for Neuroprotection During Cardiac SurgeryR01HL096978 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MATHEW, JOSEPH P · 2009 to 2013
$1.8M
Cortical Beta-amyloid Levels and Neurocognitive Performance After Cardiac SurgeryR21HL108280 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MATHEW, JOSEPH P · 2011 to 2012
$432k
Functional Connectivity Changes In Attention Networks after Cardiac SurgeryR21HL109971 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BROWNDYKE, JEFFREY N, MATHEW, JOSEPH P · 2012 to 2013
$422k
Platelet/Mast Cell Interactions as Determinants of End-Organ Injury in Cardiac SurgeryR56HL126891 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KARHAUSEN, JORN · 2015 to 2015
$414k
NHLBI NIH HHS HL096978NHLBI NIH HHS HL108280NHLBI NIH HHS HL109971NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL096978NHLBI NIH HHS R21 HL108280NHLBI NIH HHS R21 HL109971NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL126891
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with platelet activation. Because platelets are increasingly recognized as important effectors of ischemia and end-organ inflammatory injury, the authors explored whether postoperative nadir platelet counts are associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery.

methodsThe authors evaluated 4,217 adult patients who underwent CABG surgery. Postoperative nadir platelet counts were defined as the lowest in-hospital values and were used as a continuous predictor of postoperative AKI and mortality. Nadir values in the lowest 10th percentile were also used as a categorical predictor. Multivariable logistic regression and Cox proportional hazard models examined the association between postoperative platelet counts, postoperative AKI, and mortality.

resultsThe median postoperative nadir platelet count was 121 × 10/l. The incidence of postoperative AKI was 54%, including 9.5% (215 patients) and 3.4% (76 patients) who experienced stages II and III AKI, respectively. For every 30 × 10/l decrease in platelet counts, the risk for postoperative AKI increased by 14% (adjusted odds ratio, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.09 to 1.20; P < 0.0001). Patients with platelet counts in the lowest 10th percentile were three times more likely to progress to a higher severity of postoperative AKI (adjusted proportional odds ratio, 3.04; 95% CI, 2.26 to 4.07; P < 0.0001) and had associated increased risk for mortality immediately after surgery (adjusted hazard ratio, 5.46; 95% CI, 3.79 to 7.89; P < 0.0001).

conclusionThe authors found a significant association between postoperative nadir platelet counts and AKI and short-term mortality after CABG surgery.

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Hospital MortalityAcute Kidney InjuryCoronary Artery BypassHumansIncidenceKaplan-Meier EstimateNorth CarolinaPlatelet CountPostoperative ComplicationsProportional Hazards ModelsRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsTreatment Outcome

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PMID26599400
PMCPMC5040517

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