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Abstract Background: The aging process may be associated with the accumulation of a wide variety of health damages, such as cardiovascular diseases. HF is the final common path of the majority of these diseases, and, in its refractory form, heart transplantation continues to be the best treatment choice. Objective: To describe the demographic and epidemiological profile of aging and elderly patients receiving heart transplant from 2009 to 2018. Methods: Retrospective, descriptive longitudinal study on heart transplantation in aging and elderly patients using data from medical records and institutional documents. Results: From a total of 234 transplant recipients, 127 were 45 years or older. For the demographic profile, the variables used were sex, age, marital status, home state, and profession. For the epidemiological profile, the variables used were previous diagnosis, comorbidities before and after transplantation, and survival. Age varied from 45 to 74 years, with a mean of 57 years. The male sex accounted for 58.27% of recipients, and 59.84% were from the Federal District. Chagas, dilated, and ischemic cardiomyopathy accounted for 66.14%, 18.9%, and 14.17% of transplants, respectively. The main comorbidities were Chagas disease (66.14%), malignant arrhythmia requiring cardioverter-defibrillator implantation (28.35%), arterial hypertension (27.56%), and dyslipidemia (15.75%). Mean survival was 3 years and 4 months. Conclusion: The demographic profile showed that the majority of patients were aging, male, married, and from the Federal District. The epidemiological profile showed that Chagas cardiomyopathy was the main cause of HF, followed by dilated cardiomyopathy.
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A lesão renal aguda é uma complicação frequente após cirurgia cardíaca, estando associada ao aumento de morbidade e mortalidade, e ao maior tempo de permanência em unidade de terapia intensiva. Considerando a alta prevalência e a associação da lesão renal aguda com o pior prognóstico, o desenvolvimento de estratégias de proteção renal torna-se indispensável, especialmente em pacientes com alto risco para o desenvolvimento de lesão renal aguda, como aqueles submetidos à cirurgia cardíaca, com o intuito de minimizar a incidência da lesão renal aguda no âmbito hospitalar, reduzindo, dessa forma, a alta morbimortalidade. A presente revisão integrativa teve por objetivo avaliar as evidências disponíveis na literatura sobre as intervenções mais eficazes na prevenção da lesão renal aguda em pacientes submetidos à cirurgia cardíaca. Para seleção dos artigos, utilizaram-se as bases de dados CINAHL e MedLine. A amostra desta revisão constituiu-se de 16 artigos. Após a análise dos artigos incluídos na revisão, os resultados dos estudos apontaram que apenas a hidratação com solução salina apresenta resultados consideráveis na prevenção de lesão renal aguda. As demais estratégias são controversas e necessitam de mais pesquisas para comprovar eficácia.
Acute kidney injury is a common complication after cardiac surgery and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and increased length of stay in the intensive care unit. Considering the high prevalence of acute kidney injury and its association with worsened prognosis, the development of strategies for renal protection in hospitals is essential to reduce the associated high morbidity and mortality, especially for patients at high risk of developing acute kidney injury, such as patients who undergo cardiac surgery. This integrative review sought to assess the evidence available in the literature regarding the most effective interventions for the prevention of acute kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. To select the articles, we used the CINAHL and MedLine databases. The sample of this review consisted of 16 articles. After analyzing the articles included in the review, the results of the studies showed that only hydration with saline has noteworthy results in the prevention of acute kidney injury. The other strategies are controversial and require further research to prove their effectiveness.