A Study to Understand How Cardiac Surgery-associated Acute Kidney Injury Develops in Participants Who Undergo Heart Surgery With the Use of Heart-lung Machine

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Conditions studied: Cardiac Surgery-associated Acute Kidney Injury

In brief

Researchers are looking for a better way to treat and prevent cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) in people who undergo heart surgeries. CSA-AKI is a common complication in people undergoing heart surgeries, where the kidneys stop working properly. CSA-AKI risk factors include older age and alongside diseases such as kidney disease and diabetes. Longer time with heart-lung machine during heart surgeries also increases the occurrence of CSA-AKI. In this study, researchers want to better understand how CSA-AKI develops (also known as the mechanisms involved in the development of CSA-AKI) in people under heart surgeries, the presence of certain biomarkers in the body, especially with a focus on the early hours and days after the surgery. (A biomarker is a biological molecule found in blood, other body fluids, or tissues that is a sign of a normal or abnormal process, or of a condition or disease.) These biomarkers will be compared in participants who develop CSA-AKI within a week after heart surgery with the participants who do not develop CSA-AKI. The relationship with biomarkers will be determined by examining participants' blood and urine samples before and after surgery. This may help researchers better understand CSA-AKI, identify potential treatment targets and develop possible treatments to prevent CSA-AKI. Participants in this study will be people who have heart surgery already scheduled by their own doctors and have a risk of developing CSA-AKI. Participants will not receive any treatment as part of this study. They will undergo the heart surgery and related medical processes as per their normal medical treatment and management. Each participant will be in the study for up to 2 months. During the study, the doctors and their study team will: * collect participants' blood and urine samples before and after surgery * assess participants' medical records and test reports during hospitalization * monitor overall health of the participants throughout the study

Key facts

Study ID: NCT06772025
Run by: Bayer
People needed: 200
Starts: 2025-02-03
Expected to finish: 2027-01-31
Last updated by the study team: 2026-06-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Participant must be at least 18 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent form (ICF).
Participants who are scheduled for hospital admission for any of the following cardiovascular surgery interventions, alone or in combination, involving cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB):
Aortic, mitral, or tricuspid valve surgery (repair or replacement)
Aortic surgery
≥3 coronary artery bypass grafts
Participant with: chronic kidney disease (CKD): 30 ≤ estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 90 mL/min/1.73 m\^2

You may not qualify if…

Emergency surgery situation
Anemia - hemoglobin <10 g/dL
Clinical signs of systemic infection or other infection requiring anti-infective treatment (viral, bacterial, fungal, parasitic; single-dose prophylaxis allowed)
Systemic immunosuppressive or anti-inflammatory treatment including corticosteroids >10 mg prednisolone equivalent/day
Any anti-cancer treatment within 3 months (e.g. immunotherapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy)
Major surgery within 2 months
AKI within the last month
Prior renal transplants or RRT
Planned use of contrast media within 5 days prior to surgery or during surgery
Patient included in an interventional clinical trial involving a pharmacological intervention
Any reason that would make participation unadvisable, at the discretion of the investigator.
Autoimmune disorders such as anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, chronic rheumatic heart diseases, acute rheumatic heart pericarditis, endocarditis, myocarditis, rheumatic mitral valve diseases, rheumatic aortic valve diseases

Where it is running

Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen — Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (enrolling)
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Royal Papworth Hospital - Cardiac Surgery — Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (enrolling)
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital - Department of Critical Care & Nephrology — London, Greater London, United Kingdom (enrolling)
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Harefield Hospital - Cardiology — Harefield, Greater London, United Kingdom

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