Association Between Post-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Hemodynamics and 30-Day Mortality After Aortic Surgery: A Single-Center, Retrospective Study
- 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Brain Korea 21 Project, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea
- 2Big Data Research Center, Asan Institute for Life Science, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Republic of Korea
Abstract
Background: We evaluated phase-specific associations between perioperative hemodynamic variables and 30-day mortality following aortic surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and to assess the utility of post-CPB variables in risk stratification. Methods: We analyzed 691 patients who underwent aortic surgery requiring CPB. Hemodynamic variables were assessed during the preoperative, pre-incision, pre-CPB, and post-CPB phases and included heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), mean blood pressure (MBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), shock index (SI; HR/SBP), and modified shock index (MSI; HR/MBP). The primary outcome was 30-day mortality. Holm correction was applied to the between-group comparisons of hemodynamic variables. Adjusted Cox models used ridge penalization and included surgery group, CPB time, and mean post-CPB vasoactive-inotropic score. Results: Thirty patients (4.3%) died within 30 days. After Holm correction, significant differences between survivors and non-survivors remained only for post-CPB SBP, MBP, SI, and MSI. In adjusted Cox models, 30-day mortality was associated with higher post-CPB SI (hazard ratio [95% CI], 1.38 [1.17 to 1.64] per 0.1-unit increase; p < 0.001) and MSI (1.29 [1.12 to 1.47] per 0.1-unit increase; p < 0.001), as well as lower SBP (1.60 [1.24 to 2.05] per 10-mmHg decrease; p < 0.001) and MBP (2.00 [1.32 to 3.03] per 10-mmHg decrease; p = 0.001); in contrast, HR and DBP did not show a significant association with 30-day mortality. Kaplan–Meier analyses confirmed poorer survival across ROC-derived post-CPB thresholds for HR, SBP, MBP, SI, and MSI (all log-rank p ≤ 0.013). Conclusions: Post-CPB SBP, MBP, SI, and MSI showed significant adjusted associations with 30-day mortality and may assist in early postoperative risk stratification. These exploratory findings require external validation, and the identified thresholds should not be interpreted as treatment targets.
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BibTeX
@article{kim2026association,
title = {{Association Between Post-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Hemodynamics and 30-Day Mortality After Aortic Surgery: A Single-Center, Retrospective Study}},
author = {Chang-Woo Kim and Woo-Jin Kim and Hyun-Seok Kim and Baehun Moon and Junik Park and Jeongmin Gu and Yerin Yoon and Woo-Young Seo and Sung-Hoon Kim},
journal = {Journal of Clinical Medicine},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.3390/jcm15207908},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/15/20/7908},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Association Between Post-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Hemodynamics and 30-Day Mortality After Aortic Surgery: A Single-Center, Retrospective Study
AU - Chang-Woo Kim
AU - Woo-Jin Kim
AU - Hyun-Seok Kim
AU - Baehun Moon
AU - Junik Park
AU - Jeongmin Gu
AU - Yerin Yoon
AU - Woo-Young Seo
AU - Sung-Hoon Kim
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
JO - Journal of Clinical Medicine
DO - 10.3390/jcm15207908
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/15/20/7908
AB - Background: We evaluated phase-specific associations between perioperative hemodynamic variables and 30-day mortality following aortic surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and to assess the utility of post-CPB variables in risk stratification. Methods: We analyzed 691 patients who underwent aortic surgery requiring CPB. Hemodynamic variables were assessed during the preoperative, pre-incision, pre-CPB, and post-CPB phases and included heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), mean blood pressure (MBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), shock index (SI; HR/SBP), and modified shock index (MSI; HR/MBP). The primary outcome was 30-day mortality. Holm correction was applied to the between-group comparisons of hemodynamic variables. Adjusted Cox models used ridge penalization and included surgery group, CPB time, and mean post-CPB vasoactive-inotropic score. Results: Thirty patients (4.3%) died within 30 days. After Holm correction, significant differences between survivors and non-survivors remained only for post-CPB SBP, MBP, SI, and MSI. In adjusted Cox models, 30-day mortality was associated with higher post-CPB SI (hazard ratio [95% CI], 1.38 [1.17 to 1.64] per 0.1-unit increase; p < 0.001) and MSI (1.29 [1.12 to 1.47] per 0.1-unit increase; p < 0.001), as well as lower SBP (1.60 [1.24 to 2.05] per 10-mmHg decrease; p < 0.001) and MBP (2.00 [1.32 to 3.03] per 10-mmHg decrease; p = 0.001); in contrast, HR and DBP did not show a significant association with 30-day mortality. Kaplan–Meier analyses confirmed poorer survival across ROC-derived post-CPB thresholds for HR, SBP, MBP, SI, and MSI (all log-rank p ≤ 0.013). Conclusions: Post-CPB SBP, MBP, SI, and MSI showed significant adjusted associations with 30-day mortality and may assist in early postoperative risk stratification. These exploratory findings require external validation, and the identified thresholds should not be interpreted as treatment targets.
SN - 2077-0383
ER -