title: Radial artery in re-do coronary artery bypass grafting: our experience.
abstract: We evaluated our experience with the use of the radial artery as a key conduit in re-do coronary artery bypass surgery to determine the safety and efficacy and to compare this procedure to re-operations performed without the radial artery. Sixty-eight patients operated on re-do revascularization were studied: mean age was 67 years; 42 patients were in CCS III (62%) and 18 in CCS IV (26%); past myocardial infarction occurred in 12 patients (18%). We performed 116 anastomoses in all 68 patients (mean no. anastomoses/patient 1.7). Perioperative mortality was 4.4%. Three patients (4.4%) showed a transient postoperative low cardiac output syndrome; four (5.8%) had a respiratory failure and an acute renal failure occurred in 2 patients (2.9%). Four patients (5.8%) required re-operation for bleeding. The comparison of the radial re-do group (27 patients) with the non-radial re-do group (41 patients) showed a lower mortality and morbidity in the former, even if p value was not significant. We conclude that the use of the radial artery in re-do coronary operations is safe, effective, allowing an additional conduit choice and may avoid late vein graft failure.
authors.affiliation: Divisione e Cattedra di Cardiochirurgia, Università degli Studi di Parma.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ballore
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nicolini
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Borrello
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Congiu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fragnito
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gherli
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D017534:Radial Artery / Q000637:transplantation*; D012086:Reoperation