Risk factors for postoperative renal dysfunction following open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms retrospective analysis

Objectives To identify the risk factors for postoperative renal dysfunction after open surgical repair (OSR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and to establish a scoring system. Results The overall 30-day mortality rates were 22.0%(ruptured) vs 2.6% (unruptured), respectively. For the ruptured group, the independent risk factors were hemodynamic instability (P = 0.002) blood loss >1 L (P = 0.041) and preoperative creatinine >150 μmol/L (P < 0.001). By contrast, for the unruptured group, factors were smoking (P = 0.028), blood loss >1 L (P = 0.018), and antihypertensive drugs (P < 0.001). The areas under the curve of the WCRDA scoring system are 0.794 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.686-0.902, P < 0.001) and 0.811 (95% CI 0.691-0.932, P < 0.001) for the ruptured and unruptured groups, respectively. Conclusions Hemodynamic instability, blood loss >1 L and Hb <90 g/L are independent risk factors for postoperative renal dysfunction following rAAA OSR, whereas smoking, blood loss >1 L, and antihypertensive drugs are independent risk factors. WCRDA performs well in predicting postoperative renal dysfunction. Materials and Methods 287 patients from the Vascular Department of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, who were planned to perform OSR for AAA from November 2003 to January 2017. 274 patients underwent OSR for AAA were finally included in the study. A total of 118 patients had ruptured AAA and 156 unruptured AAA.The patients were divided into the ruptured and unruptured groups. Logistic regression was used to identify the independent risk factors for postoperative renal dysfunction. The receiver operating characteristic curve was used to evaluate the scoring system.