• Hydroxylethyl starches: harm and acute liver injury

     
       

    Daniel Jolley.

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    Created May 21, 2015, last updated over 3 years ago.


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    Hydroxyethyl starches, such as Hespan, Voluven, Volulyte, Tetrahes and Hestar, have been shown in several large trials to increase the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) and/or the need for renal replacement therapies among critically ill patients, particulalry those suffering sepsis.

    Evidence demonstrating harm among fit & healthy surgical patients is however lacking, notably Giles et al could find no increased risk of adverse event among surgical patients in their 2014 meta-analysis. Nonetheless, given the similar lack of demonstrable benefit of HES fluids for this group, avoidance of use in both the ICU and surgical population is prudent.

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    Hydroxylethyl starch fluids increase the risk of acute kidney injury in the critically ill, and offer little benefit to general surgical patients.

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