Effect of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Patient Undergoing Cardiac Bypass Surgery

Coronary Heart Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Clinical Study Investigating Ischemic Preconditioning in Type II Diabetic Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00397163
• Other study ID #: 01/0128
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: December 2010
• Est. completion date: January 13, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: University College London Hospitals
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

During coronary artery bypass graft surgery, injury occurs to the heart muscle. Some of this injury is due to the deprivation of oxygen and nutrients to the heart (a process called ischemia) during the surgery itself. The objective of this study is to examine whether remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC), in which the application of transient ischemia to the forearm and thigh (through the inflation of blood pressure cuffs placed on the right upper arm and upper thigh) may reduce the injury to the heart muscle sustained during cardiac surgery.

The study hypothesis is: remote ischemic preconditioning will protect the heart and improve short-term clinical outcomes during coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Description:

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is currently the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world, and is set to become the leading cause of death in the world by the year 2020, according to the World Health Organisation. Patients with severe IHD that require coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, although protected by techniques such as cross-clamp fibrillation and cardioplegia, still sustain significant myocardial injury as evidenced by perioperative troponin T or I or CK-MB release. Novel treatment strategies are required to limit the myocardial injury sustained by patients undergoing CABG surgery in order to improve the clinical outcomes of this patient group.

One such cardioprotective strategy is remote ischemic preconditioning(RIPC) which describes the cardioprotection obtained from inducing ischemia in tissue or an organ remote from the heart. Our laboratory and others have established RIPC using forearm ischemia (induced by an automated cuff applied to the upper arm) as an effective cardioprotective intervention in children undergoing corrective cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease and in adults undergoing CABG surgery. In this study we investigate whether simultaneous inflation/deflation of cuffs placed on the upper arm and thigh can reduce peri-operative myocardial injury and improve short-term outcomes in patients undergoing CABG surgery.

Eligible patients will be those patients undergoing elective CABG surgery who are >18 years old, with no significant renal or hepatic disease, and have not had a recent AMI (within 1 month).

Consented patients will randomized to RIPC treatment or control.The RIPC protocol will comprise simultaneous 2 x 5 minutes of forearm and lower leg ischemia (with an automated pressure cuff inflated to 200 mmHg) with an intervening 5 minutes of reperfusion (during which the cuff is deflated) between each inflation. The control protocol will comprise a deflated cuff being placed on the upper arm and thigh for 20 minutes. The RIPC protocol will be implemented after the patients have been anesthetized and immediately prior to CABG surgery.

The measured endpoint of cardioprotection will be troponin-T release at 0, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours following CABG surgery.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: January 13, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: January 13, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients undergoing elective CABG surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• <18 years old

• Significant renal or hepatic disease

• Previous acute myocardial infarction (within 4 weeks)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coronary Artery Disease
• Coronary Disease
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Heart Diseases
• Myocardial Ischemia

Intervention

Procedure:
• Remote ischemic preconditioning
Blood pressure cuff inflation
• Placebo
Deflated cuff on upper arm and thigh for 20 min

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	The UCLH Heart Hospital, 14-16 Westmoreland St.	London

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University College London Hospitals

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (9)

Broadhead MW, Kharbanda RK, Peters MJ, MacAllister RJ. KATP channel activation induces ischemic preconditioning of the endothelium in humans in vivo. Circulation. 2004 Oct 12;110(15):2077-82. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000144304.91010.F0. Epub 2004 Oct 4. — View Citation

Cheung MM, Kharbanda RK, Konstantinov IE, Shimizu M, Frndova H, Li J, Holtby HM, Cox PN, Smallhorn JF, Van Arsdell GS, Redington AN. Randomized controlled trial of the effects of remote ischemic preconditioning on children undergoing cardiac surgery: first clinical application in humans. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Jun 6;47(11):2277-82. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.01.066. Epub 2006 May 15. — View Citation

Kharbanda RK, Li J, Konstantinov IE, Cheung MM, White PA, Frndova H, Stokoe J, Cox P, Vogel M, Van Arsdell G, MacAllister R, Redington AN. Remote ischaemic preconditioning protects against cardiopulmonary bypass-induced tissue injury: a preclinical study. Heart. 2006 Oct;92(10):1506-11. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2004.042366. Epub 2006 Jul 3. — View Citation

Kharbanda RK, Mortensen UM, White PA, Kristiansen SB, Schmidt MR, Hoschtitzky JA, Vogel M, Sorensen K, Redington AN, MacAllister R. Transient limb ischemia induces remote ischemic preconditioning in vivo. Circulation. 2002 Dec 3;106(23):2881-3. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.0000043806.51912.9b. — View Citation

Kharbanda RK, Peters M, Walton B, Kattenhorn M, Mullen M, Klein N, Vallance P, Deanfield J, MacAllister R. Ischemic preconditioning prevents endothelial injury and systemic neutrophil activation during ischemia-reperfusion in humans in vivo. Circulation. 2001 Mar 27;103(12):1624-30. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.103.12.1624. — View Citation

Konstantinov IE, Arab S, Kharbanda RK, Li J, Cheung MM, Cherepanov V, Downey GP, Liu PP, Cukerman E, Coles JG, Redington AN. The remote ischemic preconditioning stimulus modifies inflammatory gene expression in humans. Physiol Genomics. 2004 Sep 16;19(1):143-50. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00046.2004. Epub 2004 Aug 10. — View Citation

Konstantinov IE, Li J, Cheung MM, Shimizu M, Stokoe J, Kharbanda RK, Redington AN. Remote ischemic preconditioning of the recipient reduces myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury of the denervated donor heart via a Katp channel-dependent mechanism. Transplantation. 2005 Jun 27;79(12):1691-5. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000159137.76400.5d. — View Citation

Kristiansen SB, Henning O, Kharbanda RK, Nielsen-Kudsk JE, Schmidt MR, Redington AN, Nielsen TT, Botker HE. Remote preconditioning reduces ischemic injury in the explanted heart by a KATP channel-dependent mechanism. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2005 Mar;288(3):H1252-6. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00207.2004. Epub 2004 Oct 21. — View Citation

Loukogeorgakis SP, Panagiotidou AT, Broadhead MW, Donald A, Deanfield JE, MacAllister RJ. Remote ischemic preconditioning provides early and late protection against endothelial ischemia-reperfusion injury in humans: role of the autonomic nervous system. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005 Aug 2;46(3):450-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.04.044. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Troponin-T release over the perioperative 72-hour period.		3 days