Risk Factors and Hospital Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Operated on for an acquired Valvular Heart Disease

Aim      To determine predictors of acute kidney injury (AKI) related with surgeries for correction of acquired valvular heart disease (HD) and to evaluate the incidence of in-hospital complications in patients with postoperative AKI.

Material and methods  This study included 62 patients after surgery for correction of acquired valvular HD (mean age, 61±10.9 years) with a disease duration of 11±5.3 years. NYHA functional class (FC) 1 chronic heart failure (CHF) was observed in 1.6 % of patients, FC 2 in 64.5 %, and FC 3 in 33.9 %.17.7% of patients had chronic kidney disease (CKD). Coronary lesions of ≥50 % of vascular lumen were detected in 27.4 % of patients. Surgical correction of mitral valvular disease was performed in 32 cases, aortic valvular disease in 36 cases, tricuspid valvular disease in 8 cases, and combined operations for correction of valvular disease and coronary bypass in 8 cases. Creatinine concentrations were measured according to the Jaffe method; glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was estimated with the CKD-EPI equation. AKI was diagnosed based on KDIGO (2012) criteria.

Results The AKI incidence related with surgeries for correction of valvular HD was 16.1 % (8.1 % of patients had stage 1 AKI, 3.2 % had stage 2 AKI, and 4.8 % had stage 3 AKI), and 3.2% required kidney replacement therapy. AKI was associated with the presence of CKD at baseline (р=0.044), development of hemopericardium requiring drainage (р=0.012), more pronounced coronary lesions (in the AKI group: stenoses from 50 to 70 % in 20% of patients, from 70 to 90 % in 30 % of patients, and ≥90 % in 0 %; without AKI: from 50 to 70 % in 13.4 % of patients, from 70 to 90 % in 3.8 %, and ≥90 % in 5.8 % of patients, respectively; р=0.032). Probability of postoperative AKI significantly increased with the development of hemopericardium requiring drainage. Patients with postoperative AKI compared to persons without AKI had higher mortality (20 % and 0 %; р=0.001), greater incidence of decompensated CHF (40 and 9.6 %; р=0.012) and hemopericardium requiring drainage (30 and 1.9 %; р=0.012).

Conclusion      The development of postoperative AKI is associated with CKD at baseline, more pronounced coronary injury, and hemopericardium requiring drainage.

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