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Departments of Cardiac Surgery,1 Abdominal Surgery,2 Central Laboratory,3 and Anaesthesia,4 University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Correspondence to: F. De Somer, University Hospital Ghent, Heart Centre 5IE-K12, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Filip.DeSomer{at}ugent.be
Background: Since the introduction of surgical
debulking in combination with intraoperative hyperthermic intraperitoneal
chemoperfusion (HIPEC) with oxaliplatin in our institution, severe
hyponatremia (sodium: 126.5 ± 3.8 mmol/L), hyperglycemia (glucose:
22.37 ± 4.89 mmol/L), and hyperlactatemia (lactate: 3.17 ± 1.09
mmol/L) have been observed post HIPEC. This metabolic disorder was not
observed in patients in whom cisplatin or mitomycin C was used as a
chemotherapeutic drug.
Methods: In order to understand the pathophysiology of
this finding, an analysis of our data was made. In a first analysis, plasma
sodium was corrected for hyperglycemia based on the formula of Hillier. In a
second analysis, the influence of total exchangeable sodium, total
exchangeable potassium, and total body water on plasma sodium concentration
was modeled.
Results: Analysis of our data revealed a double
mechanism for the observed metabolic disorder: hyperglycemia caused by
dextrose 5%, which is used as a carrier for the oxaliplatin, and major loss of
sodium into the dialysate (256.7 ± 68.7 mmol).
Conclusion: Better control of hyperglycemia and
intravenous compensation of sodium loss into the dialysate can attenuate the
reported biochemical disturbance.
KEY WORDS: Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemoperfusion; metabolic disorder; oxaliplatin.
Received 2 March 2007; accepted 29 August 2007.
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