Surgical treatment of left main coronary stenosis. Notes on 179 consecutive patients.
The authors report the clinical haemodynamic and angiographic data and early and late postoperative results of 179 patients consecutively operated on for left main coronary artery stenosis. Operative mortality was 3.9%; incremental risk factors were identified by univariate analysis and included female sex, unstable angina pectoris and congestive heart failure. Late postoperative mortality was 4.9%. After a mean follow-up of 31 months overall survival is 91.6%; the great majority of survivors are doing well, free from anginal pain, while 16.4% of patients experience recurrent angina pectoris of lesser severity than before operation (I-II C.C.S. class) and well controlled by medical treatment alone.
Contini
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Parma, Italy.
Barboso
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Contini
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Medici
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Fesani
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000601:surgery; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors