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Effect of preoperative statin therapy on postoperative acute kidney injury in patients undergoing major surgery: Systemic review and meta‐analysis
Author(s) -
Pan SzuYu,
Wu VinCent,
Huang TaoMin,
Chou HouChang,
Ko WenJe,
Wu KwanDun,
Lee ChienChang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1440-1797
pISSN - 1320-5358
DOI - 10.1111/nep.12334
Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , acute kidney injury , statin , odds ratio , meta analysis , renal replacement therapy , surgery , observational study
Abstract We aimed to examine the association between preoperative use of statins and postoperative acute kidney injury ( AKI ) in patients undergoing major surgery by performing a systemic review and meta‐analysis. MEDLINE and EMBASE , from inception to A pril 2013, and the reference lists of related articles were searched for relevant studies. Trials comparing preoperative statin therapy with no preoperative statin in patients undergoing major surgery were included. Outcome measures of interest were the risk of cumulative postoperative AKI and postoperative AKI requiring renal replacement therapy ( RRT ). Fixed or random effect meta‐analysis was performed to derive summary effect estimates. In five randomized controlled trials ( RCT s) and 19 observational studies, comprising a total of 989 173 patients undergoing major surgery, 112 840 patients (11.41%) received preoperative statin therapy. The specific type, dosage, and duration of statin therapy were not available in most studies. Preoperative statin therapy was associated with a significant risk reduction for cumulative postoperative AKI (weighted summary odds ratio ( OR ) 0.87, 95% CI 0.79 to 0.95). The effect of risk reduction was also significant when considering postoperative AKI requiring RRT ( OR 0.80, 95% CI 0.72 to 0.90). When restricting the analysis to the five RCT s, preoperative statin therapy did not show significant protective effect on postoperative AKI ( OR 0.49, 95% CI 0.22 to 1.09). In patients undergoing major surgery, preoperative statin therapy could associate with a reduced risk for postoperative AKI . However, considerable heterogeneity existed among included studies. Future randomized trials were warranted for this critical clinical question.