Amit X Garg, P J Devereaux, Andrew Hill, Manish Sood, Bharat Aggarwal, Luc Dubois, Swapnil Hiremath, Randolph Guzman, Vikram Iyer, Matthew James, Eric McArthur, Louise Moist, George Ouellet, Chirag R Parikh, Virginia Schumann, Sumit Sharan, Heather Thiessen-Philbrook, Sheldon Tobe, Ron Wald, Michael Walsh, Matthew Weir, Neesh Pannu
BACKGROUND: Curcumin, a popular herbal supplement from the plant turmeric, has prevented ischemic reperfusion and toxin-induced injury in many animal studies and a single-centre randomized human trial. We sought to test whether perioperative oral curcumin (compared with placebo) affects the inflammatory response and risk of postrepair complications after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in humans. METHODS: We conducted a parallel-group, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of patients from 10 hospitals in Canada who were scheduled to undergo elective repair of an unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (November 2011 to November 2014)...
October 29, 2018: Canadian Medical Association Journal: CMAJ