title: [Coronary artery reoperation].
abstract: Coronary artery reoperation has been performed in 51 patients (4%) including 5 second reoperations among 1,245 CABGs during past 9 years. There were 40 males and 11 females with a mean age of 58 year old ranging from 19 to 75 year old. Extent of coronary artery disease were; single vessel disease in 2 patients, double vessel disease in 18 patients, triple vessel disease in 22 patients and left main disease in 9 patients. Preoperative ejection fraction ranged from 0.24 to 0.69 (mean 0.48) and 21 patients (41%) showed unstable angina. Interval between primary CABG and reoperation ranged from 1 month to 20 years with a mean of 6 years. There were two groups which had early reoperation at the mean of 6 months (14 patients) and late reoperation at the mean of 9 years (37 patients) after primary CABG. Causes of reoperation varied from graft failure (29 patients), progression of native CAD (2 patients), both of them (19 patients), and incomplete revascularization (1 patient). There were 32 patients who had patent old graft at the time of reoperation. Re-entry approaches used were midsternal in 41 patients and left thoracotomy in 10 patients. The ITA, GEA, IEA and SV grafts were used in 30, 38, 5 and 28 patients, respectively. There were 4 patients who underwent CABG without cardiopulmonary bypass. The mean number of bypass was 2.1 and the mean duration of aortic crossclamp and cardiopulmonary bypass were 63 minutes and 114 minutes, respectively. As a result, there were 4 early and 1 late death. Postoperative angiography revealed that patency rate of ITA, GEA, IEA and SV grafts were 100% (22/22), 97% (30/31), 75% (3/4) and 87% (20/23), respectively. In conclusion, risk of coronary artery reoperation is still high and use of arterial graft is important to obtain high patency rate and low reoperation rate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012086:Reoperation; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014654:Vascular Patency