title: Surgery for left ventricular aneurysm. Early survival with and without endocardial resection.
abstract: In the past 3 years, 86 patients had left ventricular aneurysms resected or plicated. Sixty-eight had recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia as the indication for surgery and had preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiologic mapping. There were 14 hospital deaths (16%). Eight preoperative potential risk factors for early hospital mortality were analyzed by multivariate analysis. Only acute myocardial infarction within 30 days before surgery correlated with hospital death at the p less than 0.05 level. History of previous heart surgery and advanced New York Heart Association functional class were important risk factors at the p less than 0.1 level. Hospital mortality was 17.6% for patients who had intraoperative mapping and endocardial resection and 11.1% for the others. Patients who had aneurysm repair for ventricular tachycardia had a significantly higher incidence of low cardiac output early after surgery (p less than 0.025).
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
authors.forename: L W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Stephenson
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Hargrove
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Ratcliffe
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Edmunds
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004594:Electrophysiology; D004699:Endocardium / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors