Renal Effects of Levosimendan in Cardiac Surgery Patients

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Treatment of Left Heart Insufficiency in an Operative Setting of Cardiac Surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01918618

EA1-044-13

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recent experimental and clinical data suggest a benefit of levosimendan on the kidney function. Therefore, this retrospective, single center, matched-pairs analysis aimed to investigate whether administration of levosimendan was associated with improved renal function in cardiac surgery patients.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing cardiac surgery (OPS 5-35 bis 5-37) between 2007 and 2011 followed by postoperative observation on an ICU of the anaesthesiology department of the Charité hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Patients younger 18
• Preexisting renal insufficiency

Trial design

92 participants in 2 patient groups

Levosimendan

Description:

study group

No Levosimendan

Description:

Control group