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Lead
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
With
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery will be randomized to the soluble guanylyl cyclase stimulator vericiguat versus placebo before surgery through the day of surgery and vascular function will be quantified using ultrasound and direct assessment of arterial relaxation ex-vivo. Markers of brain and kidney injury will be measured in plasma and urine.
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Age ≥18 years
2. Elective open-heart surgery, defined as surgery on the heart or aorta that requires sternotomy or thoracotomy
You may not be if
1. Intolerance to vericiguat
2. Use of other soluble guanylyl cyclase stimulators or current use of phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors
3. Pregnancy or breast feeding. Pregnancy will be excluded in women of child-bearing potential by a urine or serum beta hcg test
4. Renal replacement therapy within 30 days prior to screening
5. Estimated glomerular filtration rate \<15 ml/min per 1.73 m2 per Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation at time of screening
6. Systolic blood pressure less than 120 mmHg at the time of screening
7. Prior kidney transplantation
8. History of significant liver dysfunction (defined as Child-Pugh class C)
9. Surgery scheduled to be performed with circulatory arrest
10. Surgery scheduled to correct a major congenital heart defect
11. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) prior to surgery
12. Active systemic infection or surgery for infectious endocarditis
13. Ventricular assist device or intraaortic balloon pump support prior to surgery
