title: [Presentation of a consecutive series of 400 aortocoronary bypass patients without hospital mortality].
abstract: Four-hundred consecutive patients were operated of coronary artery bypass between July 1980 and November 1982 without any hospital mortality. Clinical and coronarographic characteristics and surgical techniques are presented. Eighteen cases were complicated by peri-operative myocardial infarction. Follow-up data, were available for 91% of the discharged patients, ranged between 5 and 33 months (mean 17,6). Two hundred and sixty-one patients were asymptomatic, 66 had improved clinical conditions, but angina was still present; 25 were unchanged while 5 had worsened. There were seven late deaths; 6 due to cardiac disease and 1 to a mesothelioma.
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Presentazione di una serie consecutiva di 400 pazienti operati di by-pass aorto-coronarico senza mortalità ospedaliera.