title: Outcome of off-pump coronary artery bypass in renal dialysis patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Renal dialysis patients are a subgroup at major operative risk when undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Even though CABG without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has decreased the surgical risk and provided good short-term results, the long-term survival seems uncertain. We report here on the long-term outcome of CABG without CPB in renal dialysis patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  From 1998 to 2002, 44 renal dialysis patients underwent elective CABG without CPB, including 17 minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) and 27 off-pump CABG (OPCAB) procedures. There were 5 one-vessel, 12 two-vessel and 27 multi-vessel coronary artery disease patients, who mainly had left internal thoracic artery (LITA) to left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) grafting with an additional saphenous vein graft to non-LAD coronaries.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All 44 patients were followed up for 44.4 +/- 31.2 months. Three (6.8 %) surgical deaths within 30 days occurred and 25 late mortalities happened over a period of 2 - 79 months. The 5-year cumulative rate of total survival is 38.2 % and the freedom from cardiac death is 70.9 %. Using hazard analysis, old age (> 60 years) and incomplete coronary revascularization was found to significantly affect the total survival.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CABG without CPB provided an acceptable surgical mortality and morbidity. The high incidence of non-cardiac death associated with dialysis complications had an adverse impact on the overall outcome. The LITA bypass operation method combined with intensive care for dialysis complications would hopefully fulfill the goal to improve the short- and long-term results in this subgroup.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan - Republic of China.
authors.forename: J-F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: C-H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: C-H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chua
authors.forename: S-S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.forename: H-F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: M-J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: C-R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Hung
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome