PMID- 34327740 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210913 LR - 20221012 IS - 1540-8191 (Electronic) IS - 0886-0440 (Linking) VI - 36 IP - 10 DP - 2021 Oct TI - Intraoperative renal hypoxia and risk of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury. PG - 3577-3585 LID - 10.1111/jocs.15859 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. Renal hypoxia may precede clinically detectable AKI. We compared the efficacy of two indices of renal hypoxia, (i) intraoperative urinary oxygen tension (UPO(2) ) and (ii) the change in plasma erythropoietin (pEPO) during surgery, in predicting AKI. We also investigated whether the performance of these prognostic markers varies with preoperative patient characteristics. METHODS: In 82 patients undergoing on-pump cardiac surgery, blood samples were taken upon induction of anesthesia and upon entry into the intensive care unit. UPO(2) was continuously measured throughout surgery. RESULTS: Thirty-two (39%) patients developed postoperative AKI. pEPO increased during surgery, but this increase did not predict AKI, regardless of risk of postoperative mortality assessed by EuroSCORE-II. For patients categorized at higher risk by EuroSCORE-II >1.98 (median score for the cohort), UPO(2)