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Kidney injury is a serious complication of cardiac surgery that occurs in up to 30% of patients and increases the risk of adverse outcomes. Kidney injury initiates when oxygen supply to the kidney drops below levels that are needed for normal cellular function, causing tissue oxygen deficiency (hypoxia), activation of the inflammatory cascade, and oxidative stress. Together, these events further impair tissue oxygenation, culminating in impaired kidney function due to cellular injury and death.

There are no effective therapies for kidney injury after cardiac surgery, but there is evidence that recovery is possible if the processes of injury - i.e., impaired oxygen delivery, increased inflammatory response, and oxidative stress - are ameliorated soon after the onset of injury. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) - which entails the intermittent inhalation of 100% oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber at a pressure higher than one absolute atmosphere (> 760 mmHg) - has been shown to positively affect all of these processes (i.e., to improve tissue oxygenation, reduce inflammation, and reduce oxidative stress). Thus, we hypothesized that HBOT will reduce the severity of kidney injury after cardiac surgery if it is initiated soon after onset of injury. This hypothesis has not been tested in humans, but is supported by animal studies.

In this first-in-human, unblinded, controlled pilot trial, 20 adult patients who develop severe kidney injury soon after cardiac surgery will be randomized (after obtaining informed consent from the patient or surrogate) to standard-of-care or early HBOT. Severe kidney injury will be defined as a ≥30% drop in kidney function within 6 hours of surgery (as determined by change in creatinine from before surgery to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission). This degree of injury occurs in ~ 2% of patients and is associated with a 12-fold increase in the risk of complete kidney failure (requiring dialysis) or death. Patients will be excluded if they have any relative or absolute contraindications to HBOT (e.g., severe ventricular dysfunction, ventricular assist device, severe respiratory dysfunction, pneumothorax, bronchospasm).


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NCT number NCT02743754
Study type Interventional
Source University Health Network, Toronto
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Status Terminated
Phase N/A
Start date June 10, 2016
Completion date May 2019

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