Congenital heart disease

Perioperative Metabolomic Profiling in Neonatal Cardiac Surgery Identifies a High-Risk Phenotype for Adverse Outcomes

JACC AdvPublication date not resolvedTargeted metabolomics with unsupervised hierarchical clustering

Authors' conclusion

Metabolomic profiling identified phenotypes associated with risk for adverse outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery. Amino acid catabolism and inflammatory pathways were linked to morbidity, supporting further evaluation of metabolomic biomarkers for perioperative risk stratification and targeted therapeutic intervention.

Study context

Population
Neonates undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB)neonates at 3 institutions
Participants
230 neonates
Comparison
Metabolomic phenotypes identified by unsupervised clustering, compared for adverse clinical outcomes
Outcome
Composite of:
  • Morbidity
  • Including death
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
  • Cardiac arrest
  • Renal replacement therapy
  • Hepatic injury
  • Elevated lactate
  • Low cardiac output syndrome
Methodological details3 institutions, plasma samples at preoperative, post-CPB, and 24-hour time points, Boruta feature selection
  • 3 institutions
  • Plasma samples at preoperative, post-CPB, and 24-hour time points
  • Boruta feature selection

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

Further findings

Metabolite quality control

Metabolites passing quality control
Fifty-one of 76

Metabolic pathways and clinical outcomes

Multiple comparison adjustments confirmed associations between these metabolic pathways and clinical outcomes

Original publication

Perioperative Metabolomic Profiling in Neonatal Cardiac Surgery Identifies a High-Risk Phenotype for Adverse Outcomes. JACC Adv. doi:10.1016/j.jacadv.2026.102745

Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it

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