Abstract:
Objective To investigate the effects of remimazolam on brain injury in patients treated with valve replacement under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).
Methods Sixty patients scheduled by valve replacement under CPB were divided into the remazolam group and propofol group according to the randomized numerical table method (30 cases each group). The remazolam group were intravenously injected with remazolam (induction 0.2–0.3 mg/kg, maintenance 0.5–1.0 mg·kg–1·h–1), and the propofol group were intravenously injected with propofol (induction 1.5–3 mg/kg, maintenance 2–3 mg·kg–1·h–1). The 5 mL of venous blood was collected via the internal jugular vein before the start of CPB (T1), 2h after the end of CPB (T2), postoperative 3 day (T3) and postoperative 7 day (T4), The levels of white blood cells, neutrophils and C-reactive protein in the peripheral blood of patients in the morning of the 1st and 3rd day after surgery were detected using ELISA. The patients' cognitive status were assessed by the Simple Mental State Measurement Scale (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Function Assessment Scale (MoCA) at 1 day before surgery (T0), T3 and T4, respectively.
Results Compared with T0, the MMSE and MoCA scores at T3 and T4 decreased in two groups (P < 0.05) and the MMSE and MoCA scores in the propofol group at T3 and T4 were significantly higher than those in remazolam group (P < 0.01). Compared with the T1 time-point, the serum levels of S-100β and NSE in two gorups significantly increased at the T2 time-point (P < 0.05), and the serum levels of Tau in two groups at the T2-T4 time point were significantly higher than that at T1 (P < 0.05). Compared with the propofol group, the serum levels of S-100β and NSE at the T2 time-point significantly decreased (P < 0.01), and the serum levels of Tau significantly at the T2-T4 time point decreased in the remazolam group (P < 0.01). On the 1st and 3rd day after surgery, the level of C-reactive protein in the remazolam group was lower than that in propofol group (P < 0.05), and there was no statistical significance in the levels of cleukocytes and neutrophils between two groups (P > 0.05).
Conclusions Remazolam can reduce the degree of brain injury and improve postoperative cognitive function in CPB valve replacement patients, and its mechanism may be related to reducing stress and systemic inflammatory response, inhibiting S-100β protein, NSE and Tau protein.