Leucocyte and platelet activation in cardiac surgery patients with and without lung injury : A prospective cohort study

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery..

OBJECTIONS: Development of acute lung injury after cardiac surgery is associated with an unfavourable outcome. Acute respiratory distress syndrome in general is, besides cytokine and interleukin activation, associated with activation of platelets, monocytes and neutrophils. In relation to pulmonary outcome after cardiac surgery, leucocyte and platelet activation is described in animal studies only. Therefore, we explored the perioperative time course of platelet and leucocyte activation in cardiac surgery and related these findings to acute lung injury assessed via PaO2/FiO2 (P/F) ratio measurements.

METHODS: A prospective cohort study was performed, including 80 cardiac surgery patients. At five time points, blood samples were directly assessed by flow cytometry. For time course analyses in low (< 200) versus high (≥200) P/F ratio groups, repeated measurement techniques with linear mixed models were used.

RESULTS: Already before the start of the operation, platelet activatability (P = 0.003 for thrombin receptor-activator peptide and P = 0.017 for adenosine diphosphate) was higher, and the expression of neutrophil activation markers was lower (CD18/CD11; P = 0.001, CD62L; P = 0.013) in the low P/F group. After correction for these baseline differences, the peri- and postoperative thrombin receptor-activator peptide-induced thrombocyte activatability was decreased in the low P/F ratio group (P = 0.008), and a changed pattern of neutrophil activation markers was observed.

CONCLUSIONS: Prior to surgery, an upregulated inflammatory state with higher platelet activatability and indications for higher neutrophil turnover were demonstrated in cardiac surgery patients who developed lung injury. It is difficult to distinguish whether these factors are mediators or are also aetiologically related to the development of lung injury after cardiac surgery. Further research is warranted.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical Registration number: ICTRP: NTR 5314, 26-05-2015.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery - 36(2023), 5 vom: 04. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Van Paassen, Judith [VerfasserIn]
De Graaf-Dijkstra, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Brunsveld-Reinders, Anja H [VerfasserIn]
De Jonge, Evert [VerfasserIn]
Klautz, Robert J M [VerfasserIn]
Tsonaka, Roula [VerfasserIn]
Zwaginga, Jaap Jan [VerfasserIn]
Arbous, M Sesmu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiac surgery
Flowcytometry
Journal Article
Lung injury
Neutrophil activation
Platelet activation

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Date Revised 25.05.2023

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/icvts/ivad062

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NLM356033333