title: Primary coronary artery bypass grafting without cardiopulmonary bypass in impaired left ventricular function.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Conventional coronary artery bypass grafting using cardiopulmonary bypass carries relatively high mortality and morbidity for patients with left ventricular dysfunction.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-five patients with ejection fraction less than or equal to 0.35 underwent primary coronary artery bypass grafting without cardiopulmonary bypass between December 1991 and December 1994. Thirty-two patients (43%) had congestive heart failure, 11 (15%) were referred for operation within the first 24 hours of evolving myocardial infarction, and 21 (28%) up to 1 week after acute myocardial infarction. Eighteen patients (24%), 6 of whom were in cardiogenic shock, underwent emergency operations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean number of grafts/patient was 1.9 (range, 1 to 4), and internal mammary artery was used in 66 patients (85%). Only 17 patients (23%) received a graft to a circumflex marginal artery. Two patients (2.7%) died perioperatively, and 1 (1.3%) sustained stroke. At mean follow-up of 28 months, 13 patients had died, and angina had returned in 7 (10.5%). One- and four-year actuarial survival was 96% and 73%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Coronary artery bypass grafting without cardiopulmonary bypass is a viable alternative to conventional coronary artery bypass grafting particularly for patients with extreme left ventricular dysfunction or those with coexisting risk factors, such as acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery and The Heart Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Moshkovitz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sternik
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Paz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gurevitch
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Feinberg
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Smolinsky
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mohr
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013318:Stroke Volume; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left