Exenatide for Stress Hyperglycemia

Summary

Stress hyperglycemia is a common phenomenon in cardiac surgery that concerns diabetic and non diabetic patients. It has been shown that perioperative hyperglycemia is an independent risk factor of postoperative mortality and morbidity. The Leuven et al.'s study suggested that strict glycemic perioperative control using an intensive insulin therapy could reduce mortality and morbidity in surgical intensive care's patients. This study included a majority of cardiac surgery patients. Others studies have suggested that the beneficial effect of insulin-based tight perioperative glycemic control might be hampered by iatrogenic hypoglycemia. Moreover, insulin therapy failed to obtain perioperative glycemic stability in most patients. Exenatide (Byetta ®) is an incretin mimetic, characterized by an anti-hyperglycemic effect that depends on the blood glucose level. We hypothesize that continuous intravenous infusion of exenatide could improve perioperative glycemic control and stability and could reduce the risk of iatrogenic hypoglycemia compared to a conventional insulin therapy during the perioperative period of cardiac surgery.

Timeline

Start

2015-01

Primary completion

2015-12

Completion

2016-12

Publications

• Background Goldberg PA, Sakharova OV, Barrett PW, Falko LN, Roussel MG, Bak L, Blake-Holmes D, Marieb NJ, Inzucchi SE. Improving glycemic control in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit: clinical experience in two hospital settings. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2004 Dec;18(6):690-7. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2004.08.003.
• Background Studer C, Sankou W, Penfornis A, Pili-Floury S, Puyraveau M, Cordier A, Etievent JP, Samain E. Efficacy and safety of an insulin infusion protocol during and after cardiac surgery. Diabetes Metab. 2010 Feb;36(1):71-8. doi: 10.1016/j.diabet.2009.05.008. Epub 2010 Jan 25.
• Background Galiatsatos P, Gibson BR, Rabiee A, Carlson O, Egan JM, Shannon RP, Andersen DK, Elahi D. The glucoregulatory benefits of glucagon-like peptide-1 (7-36) amide infusion during intensive insulin therapy in critically ill surgical patients: a pilot study. Crit Care Med. 2014 Mar;42(3):638-45. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000035.
• Besch G, Perrotti A, Salomon du Mont L, Puyraveau M, Ben-Said X, Baltres M, Barrucand B, Flicoteaux G, Vettoretti L, Samain E, Chocron S, Pili-Floury S. Impact of intravenous exenatide infusion for perioperative blood glucose control on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injuries after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: sub study of the phase II/III ExSTRESS randomized trial. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2018 Nov 1;17(1):140. doi: 10.1186/s12933-018-0784-y.

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