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Thiamine Supplementation in High Risk Cardiac Surgery Patients

Phase 4
Completed
Conditions
Cardiac Surgery
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT03306732
Lead Sponsor
Meshalkin Research Institute of Pathology of Circulation
Brief Summary

This pilot trial will evaluate the ability of thiamine to affect on postoperative vasoplegia in high risk cardiac surgery patients

Detailed Description

Thiamine has a pivotal role and is an essential cofactor for pyruvate dehydrogenase activity. Widely known wet beri-beri is developed due to thiamine deficiency and characterized by vasodilatory shock and despaired oxygen extraction leading to kidney, heart and central nervous system dysfunction. Thiamine deficiency is often underestimated and even in primary absence of vitamin B1 deficiency, high-consumptive state of many critical illness and cardiac surgery itself can lead to its lack. Reported that in patients on chronic dialysis and patients with AKI requiring RRT thiamine deficiency is a usual finding. In cross-sectional observational study it has been shown that up to 33% of patients with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) had thiamine deficiency due to chronic loop diuretic use. Also reported that 96% of patients (21 of 23) with heart failure receiving loop diuretic therapy (daily dose: 80-240 mg furosemide) developed thiamine deficiency. In prospective observational trial it has been shown that plasma thiamine levels were decreased after CABG surgery.

In a secondary analysis of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted in septic patients, thiamine supplementation showed highly-promising renal protective effect. Need for RRT was 8 patients (21%) in placebo group and 1 patient (3%) in thiamine group (p=0.04).

On the other hand it was unable to show any benefit of thiamine supplementation in patients undergoing CABG surgery. Although, postoperative oxygen consumption was significantly increased among patients receiving thiamine.

Nevertheless, existing evidence suggests that thiamine supplementation might be an attractive strategy in counteracting organ dysfunction and thus morbidity and mortality in high-risk cardiac surgical patients.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
40
Inclusion Criteria
  • Valve surgery + CABG that required cardiac surgery with CPB
  • Aged 18 years or older
  • Signed informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
  • Emergency surgery
  • Chronic kidney disease of G4-G5 categories according to KDIGO criteria (at least one of the following present for > 3 months: glomerular filtration rate ≤ 29 ml/min/1.73 m2, history of kidney transplantation)
  • Known allergy to thiamine
  • Pregnancy
  • Current enrollment into another RCT (in the last 30 days)
  • Previous enrollment and randomisation into the APPLY trial
  • Administration of thiamine in the previous 30 day

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Thiamine groupThiamine hydrochloride (200mg) dissolved in 100 ml of normal saline-
Placebo groupNormal saline (100ml)-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Recruitment rate8 month

Recruitment of trial patients: successful recruitment is defined as 2 patients per week on average

Compliance with the protocol8 month

Successful compliance with protocol is defined as ≥ 90% of prescribed intervention being administered across all patients

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The daily incidence of cardiovascular and renal dysfunction according to Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score during 48 hours postoperatively48 hours
Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events30 days

The safety of high dose IV thiamine supplementation will be evaluated by comparison of adverse, serious adverse events and routinely assessed biochemical parameters (i.e. complete blood count, coagulation parameters, standard biochemistry, etc.)

Peak lactate level after CPB weaning to 48 hours48 hours
Rates of postoperative complications30 days
Vasoinotropic score3 days

dosage of vasoinotropic agents and total vasopressor/norepinephrine equivalent dose

The value of postoperative peak serum creatinine concentration during 3 postoperative days3 days
The incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) according to "Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) criteria" during ICU stay30 days
7-day all-cause mortality (or mortality at any time during the first hospitalization)7 days
Availability of data needed8 month

We expect that loss of follow up will not exceed 5% and data loss less than 10%

30-day all-cause mortality30 days

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Meshalkin Research Institute of Pathology of Circulation

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Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

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