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Preoperative Statin Treatment for the Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials - PubMed

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. 2017 Nov;26(11):1200-1207.

doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2016.11.024. Epub 2017 Feb 13.

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Preoperative Statin Treatment for the Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials

Bo Xiong et al. Heart Lung Circ. 2017 Nov.

Abstract

Background: The effect of preoperative statin treatment (PST) on the risk of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery remains controversial. We performed a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCT) to investigate whether PST could improve the renal outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search on PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Randomised controlled trials which reported incidence of AKI and renal replacement treatment (RRT), mean change of serum creatine (SCr) and C-reactive protein (CRP), length of stay in intensive care unit (LOS-ICU) and hospital (LOS-HOS) were included.

Results: A total of nine RCTs, covering 3,201 patients were included. Based on the results of our meta-analysis, PST could not reduce the incidence of AKI (risk ratio (RR) 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.97 to 1.29, p=0.37), and RRT (RR 1.13, 95% CI 0.45 to 2.85, p=0.80). Furthermore, SCr was not likely to be improved by PST (weighted mean difference (WMD) 0.03, 95% CI 0.00 to 0.06, p=0.055). However, the level of CRP (WMD -5.93, 95% CI 11.71 to 0.15, p=0.044) in patients treated with PST was significantly lower than that of patients administered with placebo. In addition, no significant difference was observed in LOS-ICU and LOS-HOS between PST and control groups.

Conclusion: Our meta-analysis suggests that PST cannot provide any benefit for improving renal complications and clinical outcomes, but may slightly reduce postoperative inflammation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. In the future, more powerful RCTs will be needed to confirm these findings.

Keywords: Acute kidney injury; Cardiac surgery; Coronary artery bypass grafting; Meta-analysis; Statin.

Copyright © 2017 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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