Delayed graft function after kidney transplantation: is saline really responsible?
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Delayed graft function after kidney transplantation: is saline really responsible? Gildas Gueret, MD, PhD Marc Laffon, MD, PhD
. Pascale Le Maguet, MD . Renaud Fabre, MD .
Received: 9 April 2020 / Revised: 13 April 2020 / Accepted: 14 April 2020 Ó Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society 2020
We read with interest the article entitled ‘‘Association between perioperative normal saline (NS) solution and delayed graft function (DGF) in deceased-donor kidney transplantation: a retrospective observational study’’.1 This article found that DGF was associated with perioperative NS infusion volume and not with hyperchloremia in deceased-donor kidney transplant recipients. Nevertheless, we have some comments: a
The authors wrote that the ‘‘strong ion difference (SID) may better reflect the acidifying effects of large volumes of saline compared with direct measurement of serum chloride or bicarbonate.’’1 We agree that chloride alone is not enough to analyze acid–base disturbances in accordance with the Stewart theory.2 Nevertheless, in the Morgan study,3 chloride was replaced by bicarbonate. A direct relationship between SID, bicarbonate, and acidosis was found by the authors, but the exact mechanism of acidosis (SID or bicarbonate decrease) was not determined. In that study, SID was calculated as the difference between Na? and Cl-.1 Nevertheless, other parameters such as lactate and potassium were not included, and may have modified the SID value, particularly in case of hyperkalemia.2 b Some preoperative parameters (catecholamine infusion, terminal creatinine, donor age, and cold ischemic time) were different between the two groups. When using G. Gueret, MD, PhD (&) P. Le Maguet, MD R. Fabre, MD Service d’anesthe´sie, Centre Hospitalier de Quimper, Quimper, France e-mail: [email protected]
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creatinine reduction as an outcome, NS volume was not a risk factor of DGF. So it’s difficult to draw definite conclusions about NS and DGF. Perioperative NS infusion volume was associated with an increased risk of DGF. Nevertheless, the NS volume difference was low between the two groups (mean difference: 339 mL in the operating room, 169 mL in the intensive care unit [ICU]). Additionally, substantial variability existed between patients: DGF patients also received more buffered crystalloids (BC) and gelatin. Which BC were given, and what was the volume of BC, total crystalloid, and gelatin received by the patients? As relative oliguria was an indication of fluid infusion, did DGF occur because patients received more NS, or did patients receive more fluid infusion (particularly NS) because they had oliguria and DGF? How many patients received furosemide?
The effect of hyperchloremia in clinical practice remains an active discussion, particularly in the ICU4, 5 and in high-risk patients such as those undergoing kidney transplantation. A clear relationship between the amount of chloride administered and kidney dysfunction has not yet been found in previous studies.4, 5 The study by Nesseler et al is an intere
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