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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999;117:111-116
© 1999 Mosby, Inc.


SURGERY FOR ADULT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

ATHEROSCLEROSIS OF THE ASCENDING AORTA IS A PREDICTOR OF RENAL DYSFUNCTION AFTER CARDIAC OPERATIONS

Víctor G. Dávila-Román, MD, Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD, Kenneth B. Schechtman, PhD, Benico Barzilai, MD

From the Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine (V.G.D.R., B.B.); Department of Biostatistics (K.B.S.); and the Department of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery Division (N.T.K.), Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Mo.

Supported in part by a Minority Investigator Research Grant (MIRS) to Dr Dávila-Román from the American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas.

Received for publication Feb 20, 1998. Revisions requested May 13, 1998. Revisions received July 1, 1998. Accepted for publication Aug 20, 1998. Address for reprints: Víctor G. Dávila-Román, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Box 8086, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110.

Objectives: Renal dysfunction occurring after cardiac operations has been attributed to various factors, but the importance of an atherosclerotic thoracic aorta has not been previously evaluated. The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of postoperative renal dysfunction (50% or more increase from preoperative values) and to evaluate the importance of atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta as a predictor of this complication.
Methods: Nine hundred seventy-eight consecutive patients, 50 years of age and older with normal preoperative renal function (serum creatinine level of 1.5 mg/dL or less), who were scheduled to undergo cardiac surgery were prospectively evaluated. Atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta was assessed during the operation (with epiaortic ultrasound), and patients were divided into 3 groups according to its severity (normal-to-mild, moderate, and severe).
Results: Univariate predictors of renal dysfunction at postoperative day 1 were atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta (P < .045) and postoperative low cardiac output (P = .05); at postoperative day 6 they were atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta (P < .0001), postoperative low cardiac output (P < .0001), advanced age (P = .001), decreased preoperative left ventricular function (P = .01), and female gender (P = .03). Multivariate analysis showed that atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta (odds ratio, 3.06; P = .04) was the only independent predictor of postoperative renal dysfunction at day 1 and that postoperative low cardiac output (odds ratio, 4.83; P < .0001), atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta (odds ratio, 2.13; P = .0006), and preoperative left ventricular dysfunction (odds ratio, 1.48; P = .028) were independent predictors of postoperative renal dysfunction at day 6.
Conclusions: An atherosclerotic ascending aorta is an important predictor of postoperative renal dysfunction, possibly because atheroembolism to the kidneys occurs in the perioperative period (ie, during surgical manipulation of an atherosclerotic aorta) or because the diseased aorta may be a marker of widespread atherosclerotic disease that may predispose to perioperative renal dysfunction.




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