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Early introduction of tolvaptan after cardiac surgery: a renal sparing strategy in the light of the renal resistive index measured by ultrasound

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, November 2015
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Title
Early introduction of tolvaptan after cardiac surgery: a renal sparing strategy in the light of the renal resistive index measured by ultrasound
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13019-015-0372-0
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Tomoko S. Kato, Shunya Ono, Kan Kajimoto, Kenji Kuwaki, Taira Yamamoto, Atsushi Amano

Abstract

Renal failure is a serious complication after cardiac surgery, which can be caused by long-term intravenous (IV) loop diuretic use. Tolvaptan is an oral selective vasopressin-2 receptor antagonist used in patients irresponsive to loop diuretics. We investigated their renal perfusion changes using the resistive index (RI) postoperatively. Serial renal RI, echocardiography, and laboratory examinations from 14 patients requiring continuous postoperative IV loop diuretics were reviewed. Eight patients received tolvaptan (Group T) and six received oral loop diuretics before the discontinuation of IV loop diuretics (Group L). The 1(st) data were obtained between postoperative day 0 and 2, the 2(nd) when patients were still under IV loop diuretic treatment, the 3(rd) after the initiation of tolvaptan or oral loop diuretic, and the 4(th) after the discontinuation of IV diuretics. The 2(nd) RI value was higher in Group T than Group L (0.77 ± 0.09 vs. 0.69 ± 0.01, p = 0.049) but significantly decreased after tolvaptan administration [0.77 ± 0.09 to 0.65 ± 0.05 (2(nd) to 3(rd)), to 0.62 ± 0.04 (to 4(th)), both p = 0.006], while no such changes were seen in Group L. The serum sodium and albumin levels, and echo-derived tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion increased only in Group T (134.1 ± 1.5 to 138.8 ± 3.2 mEq/L, 3.3 ± 0.3 to 3.7 ± 0.5 g/dL, 16.4 ± 3.6 to 19.7 ± 4.2 mm, all p <0.05). The duration of IV loop diuretics tended to be shorter in Group T than Group L (5.6 ± 1.6 vs. 8.7 ± 3.6 days, p = 0.051). Administration of tolvaptan in patients undergoing cardiac surgery may improve their renal perfusion, as reflected by the renal RI measured using renal Doppler ultrasound.

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Unknown 15 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 3 20%
Researcher 3 20%
Student > Bachelor 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Other 1 7%
Other 3 20%
Unknown 1 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 60%
Unspecified 1 7%
Psychology 1 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 7%
Unknown 3 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 November 2015.
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#14,536,679
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Outputs from Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
#252
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#136,136
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
#7
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