Trial reportCirculation2018
High-Target Versus Low-Target Blood Pressure Management During Cardiopulmonary Bypass to Prevent Cerebral Injury in Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Circulation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 67 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Continuous Cerebral Autoregulation Monitoring to Reduce Brain Injury From Cardiac Surgery
The Importance of Mean Arterial Pressure During Cardiopulmonary Bypass to Prevent Cerebral Complications After Cardiac Surgery - a Randomised Clinical Trial.
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) Trial: Study Protocol for a Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial to Compare Three Different Strategies of Mean Arterial Pressure Management During Cardiopulmonary By-pass
Who cites it
67 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 179 citations in OpenAlex.
- 2024 EACTS/EACTAIC/EBCP Guidelines on cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Guideline
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists/American Society of Extracorporeal Technology Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention of Adult Cardiac Surgery-Associated Acute Kidney Injury.The journal of extra-corporeal technology · 2022Guideline
- High versus low blood pressure targets for cardiac surgery while on cardiopulmonary bypass.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Higher blood pressure versus normotension targets to prevent acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis Investigating the Impact of Targeted Perfusion Parameters during Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital and Inhospital Cardiac Arrest.The journal of extra-corporeal technology · 2022Pooled it
- Morbidity and mortality in patients managed with high compared with low blood pressure targets during on-pump cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2022Pooled it
- Incidence and Risk Factors for Silent Brain Infarction After On-Pump Cardiac Surgery: A Meta-analysis and Meta-regression of 29 Prospective Cohort Studies.Neurocritical care · 2021Pooled it
- The correlation of intraoperative hypotension and postoperative cognitive impairment: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC anesthesiology · 2020Pooled it
- Trial
- Effects of noradrenaline and phenylephrine on cerebral oxygen saturation during cardiopulmonary bypass in cardiac surgery.Experimental physiology · 2025Trial
- Impact of cardiopulmonary bypass flow on the lower limit of cerebral autoregulation during cardiac surgery: a randomized cross-over pilot study.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2025Trial
- Intraoperative hemodynamics and risk of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury: An observation study and a feasibility clinical trial.Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology · 2023Trial
- Target blood pressure management during cardiopulmonary bypass improves lactate levels after cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial.BMC anesthesiology · 2021Trial
- Associations between mean arterial pressure during cardiopulmonary bypass and biomarkers of cerebral injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: secondary results from a randomized controlled trial.Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2021Trial
- Effects of dobutamine and phenylephrine on cerebral perfusion in patients undergoing cerebral bypass surgery: a randomised crossover trial.British journal of anaesthesia · 2020Trial
- The association between postoperative cognitive dysfunction and cerebral oximetry during cardiac surgery: a secondary analysis of a randomised trial.British journal of anaesthesia · 2019Trial
- Risk Factors for Myocardial Injury During Cardio-Pulmonary Bypass-Assisted Heart Surgery: A Retrospective Single-Center Study.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Rationale and design of a pilot randomized control trial of permissive hypotension after cardiac surgery: The PHACS trial.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2026Article
- Prediction of postoperative acute kidney injury in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: A machine learning model.Journal of anesthesia and translational medicine · 2026Article
- From heart to mind: A narrative review of incidence, risk factors, and mechanisms of dementia after cardiac surgery.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Review
7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundCerebral injury is an important complication after cardiac surgery with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. The rate of overt stroke after cardiac surgery is 1% to 2%, whereas silent strokes, detected by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, are found in up to 50% of patients. It is unclear whether a higher versus a lower blood pressure during cardiopulmonary bypass reduces cerebral infarction in these patients.
methodsIn a patient- and assessor-blinded randomized trial, we allocated patients to a higher (70-80 mm Hg) or lower (40-50 mm Hg) target for mean arterial pressure by the titration of norepinephrine during cardiopulmonary bypass. Pump flow was fixed at 2.4 L·min
resultsAmong the 197 enrolled patients, mean (SD) age was 65.0 (10.7) years in the low-target group (n=99) and 69.4 (8.9) years in the high-target group (n=98). Procedural risk scores were comparable between groups. Overall, diffusion-weighted imaging revealed new cerebral lesions in 52.8% of patients in the low-target group versus 55.7% in the high-target group (
conclusionsAmong patients undergoing on-pump cardiac surgery, targeting a higher versus a lower mean arterial pressure during cardiopulmonary bypass did not seem to affect the volume or number of new cerebral infarcts. CLINICAL
trial registrationURL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02185885.
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