Remote Ischemic Preconditioning and Contrast Induced - Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Randomised Clinical Trial
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning and Contrast Induced - Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Randomised Clinical Trial
Prospective, randomized, sham-controlled clinical study was conducted to assess whether RIPC reduces the incidence of CI-AKI measured standard way of using SCr concentration but also with the use of serum NGAL as a new potential biomarker of kidney injury. Furthermore, the aim of investigation was to analyse the safety and clinical outcomes of RIPC after elective coronary angiography (CA) followed by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Nowadays CI-AKI is defined according to serum creatinine concentration (SCr) as any of the following: (1) an absolute rise of ≥ 0.5 mg/dL (44 µmol/L) and/or (2) a relative increase of 25% in serum creatinine compared to baseline within 48 to 72 hours after contrast administration. In the last decades, several novel biomarkers of AKI have been studied including neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL). Furthermore, remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) turned out to be one of the most promising and intriguing non-pharmacological strategy. This simple procedure consisting of brief, non-lethal episodes of ischemia and reperfusion applied in one tissue or organ protects remote tissues or organs from subsequent injury.
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