title: [Beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting for acute myocardial infarction].
abstract: We consider that off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) [OPCAB], which results in local myocardial ischemia, is more effective for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) than conventional CABG under cardiac arrest with global myocardial ischemia. Twenty-one patients (15 males, 6 females) received OPCAB for AMI, among whom surgery was performed following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) failure in 4 and PCI was performed prior to OPCAB in 2, while PCI was not performed in the remaining 15. Preoperatively, 16 patients had intraaortic balloon pumping (IABP), and 4 had IABP and percutaneous cardiopulmonary support (PCPS). The mean interval from onset to surgery was 11.7 (range 3 to 40) hours. In 20 cases, a complete revascularization was performed. The mean number of bypasses was 2.3 and OPCAB was carried out in 14 patients. In 2 cases, OPCAB was converted to on-pump beating CABG for complete revascularization. Fourteen patients (67%), each maintained with preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction (EF), were discharged with an elective bypass. Four patients died after on-pump beating CABG, in whom EF was lower than 10%. In addition, 3 died of low cardiac output syndrome (LOS) under PCPS and 1 of ventricular fibrillation. Based on our results, we considered that complete revascularization using OPCAB was effective for cases of AMI with PCI difficulty. However, in shock cases requiring PCPS, cardiac function was not improved even after revascularization. Therefore, it is necessary to study new procedures for shock cases during the period from onset to surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakon
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yanagi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Doi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukahara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kotoh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Misaki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000401:mortality; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate