Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution in High Risk Cardiac Surgery Patients.

NCT ID: NCT03913481

Last Updated: 2025-08-07

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

2000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-04-15

Study Completion Date

2025-12-31

Brief Summary

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Transfusions are one of the most overused treatments in modern medicine, and saving blood is one important issue all around the world. Cardiac surgery makes up a large percentage of the overall blood components consumption in surgery.

Acute normovolemic hemo-dilution (ANH) is a well-known strategy which has been used for years without the support of high quality evidence based medicine to improve post-cardiopulmonary bypass coagulation and reduce red blood cells (RBC) transfusion. We designed a multicenter randomized controlled trial to investigate the effect of ANH in reducing the number of cardiac surgery patients receiving RBC transfusions during hospital stay. We will randomize 2000 patients to have sufficient power to demonstrate a 20% relative and 7% absolute risk reduction in the number of patients' RBC transfusion. If the results of the study will confirm our hypothesis, this will have a great impact on blood management in cardiac operating room.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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C.Surgical Procedure; Cardiac

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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ANH

Best available treatments plus ANH, performed withdrawing a volume of blood before the CPB. The volume will be personalized for every patient, but it'll be at least 650ml.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Acute normovolemic hemodilution

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

In the ANH arm, after induction of general anesthesia, a total blood volume of at least 650 ml of blood will be drawn from a central line. The amount of volume drawn can be replaced with Ringer lactate or a similar crystalloid fluid up to a 3:1 ratio.

Standard care

No ANH

Group Type OTHER

Standard care

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Best available treatment without ANH

Interventions

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Acute normovolemic hemodilution

In the ANH arm, after induction of general anesthesia, a total blood volume of at least 650 ml of blood will be drawn from a central line. The amount of volume drawn can be replaced with Ringer lactate or a similar crystalloid fluid up to a 3:1 ratio.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Standard care

Best available treatment without ANH

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Signed informed consent
* Any cardiac surgical intervention on CPB
* Elective surgery

Exclusion Criteria

* Medical decision (e.g.: planned pre-CPB ANH considered undeniable for ethical reasons or not applicable for safety issues)
* Unstable Coronary Artery Disease: Recent (\< 6 weeks) myocardial infarction, unstable angina, severe (\> 70%) left main coronary artery stenosis
* Critical preoperative state (ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death, preoperative cardiac massage, preoperative ventilation before anesthetic room, hemodynamic instability, preoperative inotropes or IABP, preoperative severe acute renal failure (anuria or oliguria \<10ml/hr.)
* Emergency surgery
* Pregnancy
* Unfeasibility to withdraw ≥ 650 ml without inducing hemodynamic instability
* Unfeasibility to withdraw ≥ 650 ml without inducing pre-CPB anemia (Htc \<30%)
* Unfeasibility to withdraw ≥ 650 ml without inducing low Htc during CPB (Htc \<24%)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Giovanni Landoni

MD, Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Alberto Zangrillo, Prof

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Vita-Salute University of Milano

Locations

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OUHSC - University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Site Status

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Site Status

Mohammed Bin Khalifa Specialist Cardiac Center

Awali, Bahrain, Bahrain

Site Status

Dante Pazzanese Institute od Cardiology

São Paulo, , Brazil

Site Status

Instituto do Coração - Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Universidade de São Paulo

São Paulo, , Brazil

Site Status

Xijing Hospital

Xi'an, , China

Site Status

Maria Cecilia Hospital

Cotignola, Ravenna, Italy

Site Status

Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico "G.Rodolico - San Marco"

Catania, , Italy

Site Status

Città di Lecce Hospital - GVM Care & Research

Lecce, , Italy

Site Status

IRCCS Policlinico San Donato

Milan, , Italy

Site Status

IRCCS Cardiologico Monzino

Milan, , Italy

Site Status

Ospedale San Raffaele di Milano, Italy

Milan, , Italy

Site Status

Azienda Ospedaliera Padova

Padua, , Italy

Site Status

AOU Pisana

Pisa, , Italy

Site Status

Ospedale San Carlo

Potenza, , Italy

Site Status

Policlinico Tor Vergata

Rome, , Italy

Site Status

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Sant'Andrea

Rome, , Italy

Site Status

Istituto Clinico Humanitas

Rozzano, , Italy

Site Status

San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona

Salerno, , Italy

Site Status

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino

Torino, , Italy

Site Status

Azienda Ospedaliera Ordine Mauriziano di Torino

Torino, , Italy

Site Status

Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Udine

Udine, , Italy

Site Status

Astrakhan Centre For Cardiac Surgery

Astrakhan, , Russia

Site Status

Moscow Clinical Scientific Center named after Loginov

Moscow, , Russia

Site Status

Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery

Moscow, , Russia

Site Status

E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center

Novosibirsk, , Russia

Site Status

Saint-Petersburg State University Hospital

Saint Petersburg, , Russia

Site Status

King Abdullah Medical City

Mecca, , Saudi Arabia

Site Status

Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases "Dedinje"

Belgrade, , Serbia

Site Status

National University Hospital

Singapore, , Singapore

Site Status

Chiang Mai University Hospital

Chiang Mai, , Thailand

Site Status

Kosuyolu High Specialization Education and Research Hospital

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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United States Bahrain Brazil China Italy Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Thailand Turkey (Türkiye)

References

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Monaco F, Guarracino F, Vendramin I, Lei C, Zhang H, Lomivorotov V, Osinsky R, Efremov S, Gurcu ME, Mazzeffi M, Pasyuga V, Kotani Y, Biondi-Zoccai G, D'Ascenzo F, Romagnoli E, Nigro Neto C, Do Nascimento VTNDS, Ti LK, Lorsomradee S, Farag A, Bukamal N, Brizzi G, Lobreglio R, Belletti A, Arangino C, Paternoster G, Bonizzoni MA, Tucciariello MT, Kroeller D, Di Prima AL, Mantovani LF, Ajello V, Gerli C, Porta S, Ferrod F, Giardina G, Santonocito C, Ranucci M, Lembo R, Pisano A, Morselli F, Nakhnoukh C, Oriani A, Pieri M, Scandroglio AM, Kirali K, Likhvantsev V, Longhini F, Yavorovskiy A, Bellomo R, Landoni G, Zangrillo A. Acute normovolemic hemodilution in cardiac surgery: Rationale and design of a multicenter randomized trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Aug;143:107605. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107605. Epub 2024 Jun 10.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 38866095 (View on PubMed)

Barile L, Fominskiy E, Di Tomasso N, Alpizar Castro LE, Landoni G, De Luca M, Bignami E, Sala A, Zangrillo A, Monaco F. Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution Reduces Allogeneic Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials. Anesth Analg. 2017 Mar;124(3):743-752. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001609.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 27669554 (View on PubMed)

Monaco F, Lei C, Bonizzoni MA, Efremov S, Morselli F, Guarracino F, Giardina G, Arangino C, Pontillo D, Vitiello M, Belletti A, Ajello V, Licheri M, Nigro Neto C, Barucco G, Bukamal NA, Faustini C, Mantovani LF, Oriani A, Santonocito C, Mucchetti M, Federici F, Gerli C, Porta S, Scandroglio AM, Zhang H, Pieri M, Osinsky R, Lazzari S, Leonova E, Calabro MG, Amitrano D, Turi S, Prati P, Fresilli S, D'Amico F, D'Andria Ursoleo J, Labanca R, Marmiere M, Pruna A, Scquizzato T, Kirali K, Monti G, Carmona MJC, Tanaka K, Likhvantsev V, Ti LK, Bove T, Paternoster G, Singh K, Gurcu ME, Lomivorotov V, Landoni G, Bellomo R, Zangrillo A; ANH Study Group. A Randomized Trial of Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution in Cardiac Surgery. N Engl J Med. 2025 Jul 31;393(5):450-460. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2504948. Epub 2025 Jun 12.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 40503713 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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ANH/35/OSR

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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