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widely adopted, as physicians were understandably wary of overlooking a prevent­able etiology of calamitous postoperative demise. Based on these anecdotal reports, stress-dose or high-dose perioperative steroids became standard practice in any steroid-dependent patient undergoing surgery.
Stress-dose steroids typically consists of hydrocortisone 100 mg intravenous (IV) preoperatively then every 8hours postoperatively for the rst 24hours, fol­lowed by a taper down to the basal preoperative dose over the subsequent 2–3days [3]. Current guidelines are variable, but generally recommend an individualized decision to utilize stress-dosing depending on the home dose, duration of steroid use, time since last use, and anticipated physiologic burden of the operation. However, they note the decision to stress-dose must be weighed against the negative aspects of supra-physiologic steroid administration [46].
While suppression of the HPA axis is known to occur with chronic steroid sup­plementation [7], the dosage and duration of steroid exposure required to induce suppression is unknown. Further, the duration of time to recover from HPA axis dysfunction is not known [8]. Historically, HPA axis dysfunction was speculated to persist for up to 1year [9], thus stress-dose steroids have been recommended in patients treated with corticosteroids within the past year. However, perioperative high-dose steroids are not without consequence and have been associated with hyperglycemia, impaired wound healing, anastomotic leak, hypertension, electro­lyte imbalance, immunosuppression and psychological impairments [7]. These risks are further potentiated and associated with increased perioperative morbidity if accompanied with malnutrition, advanced age, or concomitant use of immuno­suppressive medications [10].
Despite the potential for AI and perioperative cardiac decompensation, a stan­dardized preoperative evaluation algorithm for adrenal insufciency is not estab­lished. Furthermore, the clinical signicance of diagnostic tests for adrenal insufciency is currently debated [11]. Over the past 6 decades, several large case series have been conducted in both IBD and non-IBD patients challenging the prac­tice of stress-dose steroid administration. Recent recommendations lean towards avoiding perioperative stress-dose steroids [5, 12]. Still, there remains great vari­ability in perioperative steroid dosing for IBD patients undergoing colorectal sur­gery [13]. In this chapter, we review the literature and evidence surrounding perioperative steroid dosing followed by our recommendations for steroid manage­ment in patients with IBD undergoing colorectal surgery.
E. D. Adams and K. Zaghiyan
Search Strategy
Relevant PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome) questions were generated (Table9.1). A Medline and PubMed search was conducted for publica­tions in the English language between January 1952 and July 2022 using the follow­ing search terms: (‘inammatory bowel disease’ or ‘IBD’ or ‘ulcerative colitis’ or ‘Crohn’s’ or ‘organ transplant’ or ‘transplant’ or ‘steroid-treated’) and (‘corticoste­roid’ or ‘steroid’) and (‘colorectal’ or ‘colorectal surgery’ or ‘surgery’ or ‘surgical’
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Table 9.1 PICO questions
P (Patients) Steroid-treated patients
with or without IBD undergoing colorectal or non-colorectal surgery
Patients with or without IBD, previously treated with steroids within 1year undergoing colorectal or non­colorectal surgery
I (Intervention) C (Comparator) Low-dose
perioperative steroids
No corticosteroids
High-dose or stress-dose perioperative steroids
High-dose or stress-dose perioperative steroids
O (Outcomes) Perioperative
hemodynamic instability, adrenal insufciency, morbidity, mortality, infectious complications
Perioperative hemodynamic instability, adrenal insufciency, morbidity, mortality, infectious complications
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or ‘operation’ or ‘operative’ or ‘perioperative’) and (‘stress-dose’ or ‘high-dose’ or ‘low-dose’ or ‘dosing’ or ‘previous steroid’) and (‘adrenal insufciency’ or ‘hemo­dynamic’ or ‘outcome’ or ‘complication’ or ‘morbidity’ or ‘mortality’). We addi­tionally searched the reference section of each relevant article to identify additional articles pertaining to this topic. Retrospective and prospective, observational and randomized studies were included. Given the paucity of studies investigating IBD patients undergoing colorectal surgery, the search was expanded to include organ transplant recipients and other non-IBD steroid treated patients undergoing non­colorectal surgery.
Results
Several studies have been performed over the past 60years to assess the clinical utility and optimal dosage of perioperative steroids in steroid-treated or steroid­dependent patients undergoing surgery (Table 9.2). The concept of reducing or omitting high-dose or stress-dose steroids in steroid-treated patients is not novel, particularly given serious concerns about surgical wound healing. In the early trials, steroid-treated patients underwent surgery without perioperative steroids and clini­cal parameters and HPA function were tested. In 1962, Solem and Lund reported 30 patients whose steroids were stopped more than 4weeks before a variety of surgical procedures (IBD undergoing major colorectal surgery, n=4) without perioperative steroid dosing and showed no severe hemodynamic collapse to suggest clinically relevant AI in any of these patients [14]. Two studies from the 1970s further inves­tigated the consequence of perioperative steroid omission in steroid-treated patients undergoing surgery. They similarly implemented HPA axis testing and correlated them with clinical parameters and found that hypotension attributed to AI in only 4 out of 125 patients combined [15, 16]. In a series of 104 patients, Kehlet and Binder followed steroid-treated patients undergoing major and minor operations. Home­dose steroids were stopped 48h before surgery and restarted 24h after minor cases and 48h after major cases. In these patients, who did not receive high-dose, stress­dose, nor any perioperative steroids, clinical adrenal insufciency was minimal with
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Table 9.2 Studies evaluating perioperative steroid dosing
First author (year)
Solem (1962) [14]
Jasani (1968) [15]
Kehlet (1973) [16]
Knudsen (1981) [18]
Lloyd (1981) [19]
Symreng (1981) [20]
Patients studied Intervention
Patients previously treated with steroids/ various surgeries (n=4 IBD/ CRS).
RA/anterior synovectomy
Steroid­treated patients undergoing various major/minor operations
IBD/CRS 200 with no
RA/ Orthopedic surgery
Various patients (n=7 IBD, n=16,CRS)
No periop steroids
No periop steroids
No periop steroids
periop steroids, 50 received steroids
Stress-dose vs. usual daily dose
If impaired ACTH stim test>HC 25mg IV preop then 100mg IV/24hrs. If normal ACTH stim test: No periop steroids. Return to usual daily dose postop
Study design N Outcome
R 30 No unexplained
PO 21
steroid­treated vs. 20 controls
PO 104 3 patients with
R 250 11 cases of
PO 61 No difference in
PO 14
steroid­treated patients and 8 steroid­naïve controls
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Quality of evidence
Very low death attributed to AI
1 patient with abnormal preop ACTH had hypotension responsive to steroids.
hypotension and low cortisol thought to be AI
hypotension treated with steroids/possible AI
periop steroid supplementation between the 2 groups
No hemodynamic instability
Very low
Low
Very low
Very low
Very low
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Quality
of
evidence
Very low
Very low
Very low
Very low
Very low
Very low
Low
Very low
Moderate
(continued)
First author (year)
Bromberg (1991) [22]
Bromberg (1995) [23]
Friedman (1995) [24]
Glowniak (1997) [26]
Thomason (1999) [27]
Mathis (2004) [25]
Zaghiyan (2012) [31]
Zaghiyan (2012) [32]
Zaghiyan (2011) [33]
Patients studied Intervention
Renal transplant patients admitted w/ signicant physiologic stress
Renal transplant patients/ various surgeries
Renal­transplant or RA/major orthopedic surgery
Various (colorectal n=2) with positive ACTH stim test
Organ transplant/ gingival surgery
Organ transplant/ lymphocele drainage
IBD/CRS previously on steroids within 1year
IBD/CRS HDS vs.
IBD/CRS HDS vs.
Usual daily dose
Usual daily dose
Usual daily dose
Stress-dose vs. placebo. Return to usual daily dose postop
Stress-dose vs. placebo. Return to usual daily dose postop
Stress-dose vs. no steroid. Return to usual daily dose postop
No periop steroids
LDS
LDS
Study design N Outcome
PO 40 No unexplained
hemodynamic instability
PO 52 No clinical or
laboratory evidence of adrenocortical insufciency
PO 28 All patients with
endogenous adrenal function. No unexplained hemodynamic instability.
RCT 18 No episodes of
AI.One in each group with hypotension.
RCT 20 No
hemodynamic instability
R 58 No hypotension,
arthralgia, ileus, mental status changes. Blood glucose higher with stress-dose
R 49 No difference in
hemodynamic instability
RO 32 No unexplained
hemodynamic instability
R 97 No difference in
hemodynamic instability
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Table 9.2 (continued)
First author (year)
Aytac (2013) [34]
Zaghiyan (2014) [36]
Ritter (2019) [35]
IBD Inammatory bowel disease, CRS Colorectal Surgery, RA Rheumatoid arthritis, ACTH Adrenocorticotropic hormone, HDS High-dose steroids, LDS Low-dose steroids, R Retrospective, PO Prospective observational, RO Retrospective observational, RCT Randomized controlled trial
Patients studied Intervention
IBD/CRS Stress-dose
vs. usual daily dose
IBD/CRS HDS vs.
LDS
IBD/CRS Stress dose
with rapid IV taper vs. PO taper
Study design N Outcome
R 235 More tachycardia
RCT 92 Non-inferiority
R 686 Postoperative
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of
evidence
Moderate with stress-dose otherwise no difference in hemodynamic instability
High of LDS vs. HDS with respect to postural hypotension; no difference in hemodynamic instability. More infections with HDS.
Low oral steroid taper associated with pelvic sepsis
only 3 patients (2.8%) exhibiting unexplained hypotension and abnormal adreno­corticotropin hormone (ACTH) testing. However, each of these patients recovered spontaneously without the administration of steroids [16].
The utility and clinical relevance of preoperative ACTH testing has been an area of interest. In theory, preoperative testing could be utilized to identify potential steroid-treated patients with HPA suppression who may require perioperative ste­roids to prevent AI. It may also be used to identify patients whose HPA axis has recovered, thereby sparing these patients from the side effects of unnecessary ste­roids. In practice, the link between biochemical HPA axis suppression and clinical practice has been opaque. In a prospective study of perioperative HPA axis function, ACTH testing correlated with preoperative HPA function in 48 steroid-treated patients undergoing elective surgery (colorectal, n=7) without perioperative ste­roids. While 17 of the 48 steroid-treated patients exhibited a normal response to both ACTH stimulation and postoperative HPA axis testing, none exhibited any symptoms consistent with AI or hemodynamic instability and none required steroid administration including the 31 patients with abnormal ACTH responses [17]. Thus, while normal HPA testing indicates the safety of foregoing steroids, this may still be possible in those with abnormal HPA testing.
Further studies investigated if the timing of steroids impacted the requirement for perioperative steroids. In 1981, Knudsen and colleagues performed a
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retrospective study evaluating 250 steroid-treated IBD patients undergoing major colorectal surgery [18]. The study included 3 groups of patients: (1) patients on steroids at the time of surgery (n= 48); (2) patients whose steroids were stopped 1week to 2months before surgery (n=76); and (3) patients with steroid cessation greater than 2months before surgery (n=126). Intraoperative hypotension occurred in 29 patients overall (11.6%) but was less common in those furthest from steroid use (>2 months, 5.6%). In 9 patients, intraoperative rescue hydrocortisone was given, however none of these patients had biochemically proven AI.These early studies elaborated on the inconsistency between positive ACTH testing and clini­cally signicant AI and reinforced the need for perioperative steroids in some patients, though the optimal patient cohort and steroid dose remained unclear.
Subsequent studies evaluated various perioperative steroid dosing regimens con­sisting of low-dose steroids or maintaining patients on their preoperative steroid dose without the addition of a stress-dose steroid. In 1981, Lloyd completed a pro­spective observational trial of 61 arthritic patients requiring orthopedic surgery comparing a single preoperative stress-dose of steroids (hydrocortisone 100mg intramuscular) against omission of any stress-dose steroids [19]. They found no signicant difference in the need for perioperative rescue steroids in patients treated with preoperative stress-dose steroids (24%) compared to those patients without stress dose steroids (17%). These ndings provide evidence that steroid-treated patients may not require rescue medication despite receiving no stress-dose ste­roids. Furthermore, they showed that the physiologic requirement for perioperative steroid supplementation may be lower than expected. Further justication for low­dose perioperative steroid safety was evidenced by Symreng in a small study of 14 steroid-treated patients (IBD, n=7) compared to 8 steroid-naïve controls undergo­ing various operations (major colorectal surgery, n = 16) [20]. They report that steroid- treated patients with abnormal preoperative ACTH-stimulation testing (n=6) may be managed with low-dose steroids (hydrocortisone 15mg IV upon induction of anesthesia followed by 100mg IV over the next 24h) followed by reinstitution of the preoperative dose, whereas patients with normal ACTH- stimu­lation testing may be managed without steroids on the day of the surgery.
In the 1990s, Shapiro and colleagues prospectively observed 13 pediatric trans­plant patients whose home-dose steroid regimen were either weaned or abruptly stopped before an allograft nephrectomy [21]. The range of overall steroid use was broad (range: 21days to 5years) and although 6 patients, had evidence of HPA-axis dysfunction on preoperative ACTH testing, no patient in the entire series developed signs or symptoms of AI.This indicates the potential for adrenal reserve regardless of immunosuppression duration. Bromberg and colleagues later performed two pro­spective cohort studies evaluating renal transplant recipients admitted with signi­cant physiologic stress (n= 40) or for various operations (n=52), both managed with continuation of their home-dose steroid dosing [22, 23]. Almost all patients had normal urinary cortisol levels and no clinical expression of hemodynamic com­promise yet ACTH-stimulation testing appeared to overestimate adrenal dysfunc­tion in a majority of patients. Friedman and colleagues prospectively evaluated 28 renal-transplant or rheumatoid arthritis patients on an average prednisone dose of
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10mg/day undergoing major orthopedic surgery [24], and similarly found that all patients had endogenous adrenal function and no episodes of clinically signicant adrenal insufciency. Further, another retrospective study of 58 pancreas and kid­ney transplant recipients undergoing lymphocele drainage showed no difference in hypotension, arthralgia, mental status changes, ileus, or wound healing in patients treated with stress-dose steroids or not, but patients treated with stress-dose steroids had more hyperglycemia [25].
Several years later, Glowniak and Loriaux conducted a randomized double-blind study of 18 steroid-treated patients with positive ACTH stimulation tests undergo­ing various surgical procedures (colorectal, n=2) managed with either stress-dose steroids or placebo plus the patient’s baseline steroid dose and observed no episodes of hypotension related to AI [26]. Their conclusion was that patients with secondary AI do not manifest symptoms consistent with cardiovascular collapse when given, at minimum, their preoperative steroid dose. Another randomized double-blind crossover study of 20 organ transplant recipients on prednisone (5–10mg) undergo­ing gingival surgery, randomized to hydrocortisone 100mg IV or placebo preopera­tively during their rst surgery and then then received the opposite for the second surgery, similarly observed no symptoms consistent with AI in any patients despite several cases of abnormal ACTH stimulation testing [27]. Despite obvious sample size limitations, these studies suggest that stress-doses of corticosteroids are not required even with biochemical evidence of AI, and advanced the concept that steroid- treated patients may be continued on their preoperative-dose of corticoste­roids during the perioperative period despite abnormal ACTH stimulation testing without risk of clinically signicant adrenal insufciency. Multiple meta-analysis have reported safety continuing basal glucocorticoids in minor to moderate surger­ies, citing a low incidence of adrenal insufciency secondary to exogenous cortico­steroid use [28, 29].
Despite increasing evidence against stress-dose steroids during the perioperative period for steroid-treated patients, colorectal surgeons managing perioperative IBD patients on high doses of preoperative steroids remained reluctant to change their practices [3, 13, 30]. Amidst a paucity of colorectal surgery-specic data, our group performed several studies comparing low-dose steroids (LDS) to high-dose steroids (HDS) in steroid-treated IBD patients undergoing major colorectal surgery. Our LDS protocol consisted of one-third of the daily preoperative steroid dose in hydro­cortisone intravenous equivalents (IVED) given at the time of surgical incision fol­lowed by one-third IVED every 8h postoperatively, followed by a taper. For patients off steroids at the time of surgery, no perioperative steroids were given. HDS entailed hydrocortisone 100mg IV administered preoperatively followed by 100mg IV every 8hours postoperatively for 24hours, then a taper to oral prednisone over 3days. On hospital discharge, steroids were either discontinued or tapered.
In 2012, we performed a retrospective pilot study evaluating 32 steroid-treated IBD patients (10 patients on steroids up until surgery and 22 patients treated with steroids within the past year) managed with LDS [31]. Hypotension occurred in 16% of patients, but all cases resolved spontaneously with no patients requiring uid bolus, blood transfusion, vasopressors, or high-dose corticosteroid rescue for
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AI.We later compared LDS (n=54) versus HDS (n=43) in IBD patients who were actively receiving steroid treatment (n=48) or who had previously received steroid treatment (n=49) undergoing major colorectal surgery [32, 33]. For patients previ- ously treated with steroids, median duration since last steroid dose was 4months (range: 0.1–12 months) and median maximum steroid dose in the past year was equivalent to prednisone 25mg/day (range: 5–60 mg/day). Aside from a higher incidence of tachycardia in patients previously treated with steroids managed with HDS [33], we found no signicant difference in hemodynamic instability between the 2 patient groups and no patients required high-dose steroid rescue for AI.
Aytac and colleagues performed a large volume IBD-specic retrospective anal­ysis of IBD patients on steroids (n = 48) compared to IBD patients off steroids (n= 187) at the time of proctocolectomy [34]. Eighty-nine patients were treated with stress-dose steroids and 146 without. There was a higher incidence of sinus tachycardia in patients managed with stress-dose steroids. While no episodes of adrenal crisis occurred, one patient in the stress-dose group was readmitted with hypotension, fatigue and bloating and diagnosed with AI.Another patient in the stress-dose group died on postoperative day 25 due to an anastomotic leak. Further underscoring the dangers of postoperative steroids, another retrospective series of IBD patients undergoing IPAA reported that compared to stress dosing with rapid IV taper, prolonged oral taper associated with an increased rate of pelvic sepsis [35].
In 2014, our group performed a prospective, randomized non-inferiority study evaluating 92 steroid-treated IBD patients undergoing major colorectal surgery ran­domized to HDS or LDS [36]. LDS was non-inferior to HDS with respect to our primary outcome, absence of postural hypotension on postoperative day 1, which occurred in 95% of patients randomized to HDS versus 96% of patients assigned to LDS, p= 0.007. This study included 41 patients previously treated with steroids (median duration since last steroid dose of 4 months; interquartile range: 2–6 months), of which 25 were randomized to LDS (no perioperative steroids given). There was no difference in hemodynamic instability between the 2 patient groups and no patients were treated with rescue HDS for AI.There was, however, an insignicant trend toward more infectious complications in HDS (16%) versus LDS-treated patients (4%); p=0.11.
While current anesthesia guidelines reference the growing body of evidence against perioperative stress-dose steroid administration for patients at low-risk for HPA axis suppression, they remain conservative and continue to recommend stress­doses of up to 100mg hydrocortisone IV for patients with documented HPA axis dysfunction by ACTH stimulation test or those at high-risk despite evidence stating otherwise [6, 37]. These recommendations reect the 2016 Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines [38] prioritizing adrenal crisis prevention over the potential adverse effects of short-term overtreatment with stress-dose steroids. Although both societies advocate for ACTH testing, a study by Khoo provided evi­dence that the threshold for diagnosis of HPA axis dysfunction may be too low [39]. They trended total serum cortisol and cortisol binding protein using modern and specic immunoassays of 93 euadrenal patients undergoing surgeries of varying severity. They concluded that (1) endogenous stress cortisol responses correlated
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with surgery severity, (2) a downregulation of cortisol binding protein correlated with surgery, effectively increasing free and active cortisol, and (3) their minimum peak stress cortisol response was 375nmol/L suggesting that the previous lower limit of 580 nmol/L for diagnosis hypoadrenalism needed redenition. A recent review article and practice recommendations summarizing perioperative optimiza­tion strategies in IBD surgery, however, recommended a gradual wean off steroids in patients undergoing IBD surgery with a goal to have patients off steroids for one week before surgery [12]. If this is not possible, the authors recommended continu­ing the preoperative daily dose without the need for additional steroids.
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Recommendations Based onData
Based on various retrospective and observational studies and few randomized pro­spective studies, stress-dose steroids appear to be unnecessary and potentially harm­ful in IBD patients undergoing major colorectal surgery. Several studies in both IBD and non-IBD patients have suggested that steroid-treated patients can be maintained on their usual preoperative steroid dose in the perioperative period. For patients previously treated with steroids within the past year, perioperative steroids may be avoided altogether. While preoperative ACTH stimulation and perioperative plasma cortisol levels may be evaluated, these tests tend to overestimate adrenal insuf­ciency with a majority of patients not exhibiting clinically signicant hemodynamic instability even when perioperative steroids are held altogether. Thus, a low-dose perioperative steroid protocol consisting of the patient’s preoperative dose appears to not only be sufcient but may avoid complications associated with high-dose steroids. Based on the available data, we recommend that steroid-treated IBD
patients undergoing major colorectal surgery be managed with low-dose peri­operative steroids equivalent to their preoperative steroid dose in the periop­erative period (evidence quality high; strong recommendation).
Personal View oftheData
In our view, high-dose perioperative steroids are unnecessary and likely increase perioperative risk. In our practice we maintain patients on their preoperative steroid dose in the perioperative period. Our perioperative protocol entails hydrocortisone one-third IVED given at the time of surgical incision, followed postoperatively by oral prednisone equivalent to the patient’s preoperative steroid dose or in patients unable to tolerate perioperative oral medications, hydrocortisone equivalent to the preoperative steroid dose is administered followed by a taper. Preoperative HPA axis testing is likely oversensitive, does not correlate with practical physiology, and does not need to be pursued. For patients off steroids at the time of surgery, no peri­operative steroids are given.
Patients are monitored closely in the perioperative period and any unexplained hemodynamic instability is followed by ACTH stimulation testing. Patients are
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initially managed conservatively, and high-dose steroids are added only if the patient remains unresponsive to conservative measures and ACTH stimulation test­ing is positive. However, in our experience no patients have required additional high-dose steroids for AI with this protocol.
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