title: Treatment of severe coronary artery disease with 5, 6, and 7 saphenous vein bypasses: review of 131 consecutive patients.
abstract: One hundred thirty-one consecutive patients who received 5, 6, and 7 bypass grafts are analyzed. Ages ranged from 31 to 74 years. The male-to-female ratio was 7:1. As an indication of severity of disease, 25% were classified as having impending myocardial infarction and 46.6% were classified in New York Heart Association Functional Class IV. Left ventricular function was impaired in 37.4%, and 30% of the patients had left main coronary obstruction. Nonfatal perioperative myocardial infarction occurred in 4.6%. The hospital mortality was 3%. One hundred percent follow-up (5 to 55 months) revealed 4 late deaths, 3 presumably of cardiac origin. Only 7 patients in the postoperative follow-up group have complained of angina; 1 has since undergone successful reoperation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000209:etiology; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous