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Corticosteroid Therapy in Neonates Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Randomized Controlled Trial.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The efficacy of intraoperative corticosteroids to improve outcomes following congenital cardiac operations remains controversial. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to determine whether intraoperative methylprednisolone improves post-operative recovery in neonates undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS:Neonates undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass at 2 centers were enrolled in a double-blind randomized controlled trial of methylprednisolone (30 mg/kg) or placebo after the induction of anesthesia. The primary outcome was a previously validated morbidity-mortality composite that included any of the following events following surgery before discharge: death, mechanical circulatory support, cardiac arrest, hepatic injury, renal injury, or rising lactate level (>5 mmol/l). RESULTS:Of the 190 subjects enrolled, 176 (n = 81 methylprednisolone, n = 95 placebo) were included in this analysis. A total of 27 (33%) subjects in the methylprednisolone group and 40 (42%) in the placebo group reached the primary study endpoint (odds ratio [OR]: 0.63; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.31 to 1.3; p = 0.21). Methylprednisolone was associated with reductions in vasoactive inotropic requirements and in the incidence of the composite endpoint in subjects undergoing palliative operations (OR: 0.38; 95% CI: 0.15 to 0.99; p = 0.048). There was a significant interaction between treatment effect and center. In this analysis, methylprednisolone was protective at 1 center, with an OR: 0.35 (95% CI: 0.15 to 0.84; p = 0.02), and not so at the other center, with OR: 5.13 (95% CI: 0.85 to 30.90; p = 0.07). CONCLUSIONS:Intraoperative methylprednisolone failed to show an overall significant benefit on the incidence of the composite primary study endpoint. There was, however, a benefit in patients undergoing palliative procedures and a significant interaction between treatment effect and center, suggesting that there may be center or patient characteristics that make prophylactic methylprednisolone beneficial.

SUBMITTER: Graham EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6684326 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Corticosteroid Therapy in Neonates Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Graham Eric M EM   Martin Reneé H RH   Buckley Jason R JR   Zyblewski Sinai C SC   Kavarana Minoo N MN   Bradley Scott M SM   Alsoufi Bahaaldin B   Mahle William T WT   Hassid Marc M   Atz Andrew M AM  

Journal of the American College of Cardiology 20190801 5


<h4>Background</h4>The efficacy of intraoperative corticosteroids to improve outcomes following congenital cardiac operations remains controversial.<h4>Objectives</h4>The purpose of this study was to determine whether intraoperative methylprednisolone improves post-operative recovery in neonates undergoing cardiac surgery.<h4>Methods</h4>Neonates undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass at 2 centers were enrolled in a double-blind randomized controlled trial of methylprednisolone (  ...[more]

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