Trial reportAnnals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia2023
Protective Efficacy on Adult Ischemic Myocardium under Bypass: Del Nido vs. St. Thomas Blood Cardioplegia.
Trial report in Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Del Nido cardioplegia versus cold blood cardioplegia in adult cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Modified Del Nido Cardioplegia with a 1:4 Crystalloid-to-Blood Ratio Versus Blood-Based St. Thomas Cardioplegia in Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2026Article
- Comparing del Nido and St. Thomas II cardioplegia in a rat ischemia-reperfusion model: Histopathology, mitochondria, and TEM analysis.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Article
- Reduced Invasiveness of Cardiopulmonary Bypass: The Mini-Circuit and the Micro-Cardioplegia.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeTo compare the myocardial protective efficacy of del Nido cardioplegia (DNC) with St. Thomas blood cardioplegia (SBC) in adult cardiac surgery.
methodsFrom January to December 2021, all the patients who underwent elective cardiac operation were randomly divided into two cohorts based on the type of cardioplegia: DNC group and SBC group. Three categories of variables were compared: patient demographics, clinical variables, and laboratory variables.
resultsA total of 133 patients were enrolled in this study: DNC group, n = 65; and SBC group, n = 68. Except that the volume of cardioplegia administration were obvious less in the DNC group (P <0.01), no significant difference was found in the other postoperative clinical variables (P >0.05). No statistical significance was proved (P >0.05) in postoperative troponin I, creatine kinase, and B-type natriuretic peptide. The malondialdehyde concentration was higher in the SBC group, whether it is at 4 hours (P <0.05) or 24 hours (P >0.05) after operation. At the same two points in time, the change in superoxide dismutase activity was more significant in the SBC group (P <0.05).
conclusionThe DNC cardioplegia was safe and effective on adult myocardium protection. The potential antioxidant stress effect in DNC may provide a direction for further improvement on the formula of cardioplegic solution.
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