Serum Neurofilament Light (NFL) in Surgery Under General Anaesthesia (GA) Compared to Surgery With Hypno-analgesia (Hyp)

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-09-01

Study Completion Date

2023-02-28

Brief Summary

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Experimental studies have shown that inhalational anesthetics may be neurotoxic by for example causing amyloid beta deposition. Otherwise a pre-clinical study reported an increase in tau phosphorylation with the use of propofol.

Whether anesthesia and surgery contribute to the development of long-term cognitive decline remains however controversial. A meta-analysis concluded that general anesthesia could increase the risk of postoperative cognitive decline (POCD) compared with regional or combined anesthesia but this was not shown for Postoperative delirium (POD). This conclusion should be interpreted with caution as these studies showed many shortcomings.

Currently no study has compared the release of Neurofilament Light, a biomarker of neuronal injury, in patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia compared to surgery with Hypno-analgesia and thus without anesthetic drugs.

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Detailed Description

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POD and POCD are manifestations of cognitive dysfunction occurring in the perioperative period. Whether surgery and specifically anesthesia contribute to the development of perioperative cognitive dysfunctions is not clear.

Cell culture and animal studies have suggested detrimental effects of anesthetic exposure.1,2,3 Otherwise, it has been shown in animals that surgery plus anesthesia produced worse POCD than anesthesia alone.4 Proinflammatory cytokine levels increase during surgery. These elevated levels of inflammatory markers associated with the activation of microglial cells may induce neuroinflammation enhancing ongoing neurodegeneration.5 However, anesthetics may be capable of modulating inflammation and may alter the neuroinflammatory response.

Clinical studies associating the effects of general anesthesia with POCD and POD are conflicting.6 These varying results could be due to heterogeneity of patients' baseline status (e.g. cognitive status, education, associated diseases), type of surgery, as well as methods used to determine POCD and POD.

The use of serum neurobiomarkers, sensitive and specific for neuronal cell injury will address the hypothesis of general anesthesia neurotoxicity. Serum Neurofilament Light (NFL) is such a neurobiomarker.Currently no study has compared the release of Neurofilament Light, a biomarker of neuronal injury, in patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia compared to surgery with Hypno-analgesia and thus without anesthetic drugs. Our hypothesis is that surgery under GA compared to hypnosis does not statistically increase the risk of neuronal injury as measured by serum NFL.

Conditions

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General Surgery

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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General Anesthesia (GA)

Patients undergoing thyroid or breast cancer surgery under general anesthesia

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

General anesthesia

Intervention Type OTHER

Surgery under general anesthesia with the use of propofol

Hypno-analgesia (Hyp)

Patients undergoing thyroid or breast cancer surgery under Hypno-analgesia; i.e.hypnosis combined with the use of analgesics.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Hypno-analgesia

Intervention Type OTHER

Surgery under Hypnosis session and analgesics

Interventions

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General anesthesia

Surgery under general anesthesia with the use of propofol

Intervention Type OTHER

Hypno-analgesia

Surgery under Hypnosis session and analgesics

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adult patients undergoing thyroid or breast cancer surgery and necessitating one night of hospital stay

Exclusion Criteria

* Renal insufficiency with a GFR \< 30 mL/min
* Mammectomy
* Preoperative psychiatric problems
* Patients not speaking fluently French
* Patients at risk of postoperative hyperalgesia (Kalkman score \> 4/15)
* Allergy to local anesthetics, NSAID and to Rocuronium
* Patients undergoing one day surgery

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

90 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No