title: Long-term outcomes after surgical ventricular restoration and coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with postinfarction left ventricular anterior aneurysm.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Surgical ventricular restoration (SVR) for postinfarction left ventricular anterior aneurysm improves left ventricular function. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether concomitant multivessel coronary artery disease (MVCAD) can affect long-term outcome. Thus, long-term results of SVR associated with multiple coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for MVCAD (group 1) were compared with SVR with or without CABG to left anterior descending artery and/or its diagonal branch for single-vessel coronary artery disease (group 2).
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from 104 consecutive patients (age 64 +/- 8 years) with left ventricular anterior aneurysm, subjected to SVR from January 1994 to December 2004 and divided into group 1 (n = 79) and group 2 (n = 25), were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In group 1 vs. group 2, number of grafts/patient (2.7 +/- 0.9 vs. 0.6 +/- 0.6, P < 0.0001) was higher, cardiopulmonary bypass (109 +/- 30 vs. 65 +/- 28 min, P < 0.0001) and aortic cross-clamp times (65 +/- 18 vs. 44 +/- 23 min, P < 0.0001) were longer, resected aneurysmatic area (12 +/- 8 vs. 17 +/- 11 cm2, P < 0.05) was smaller. Operative mortality was 3.7 vs. 4% (P = not significant). At 12 years, survival (85 +/- 5 vs. 80 +/- 16%) and freedom from cardiac events (70 +/- 7 vs. 75 +/- 16%) were not statistically different in both groups. Follow-up echocardiography showed significant left ventricular ejection fraction improvement in group 1 (0.45 +/- 0.07 vs. 0.34 +/- 0.10 preoperatively, P < 0.0001) and group 2 (0.47 +/- 0.09 vs. 0.36 +/- 0.12, P = 0.001). Independent predictors of late death were preoperative history of ventricular arrhythmias (P < 0.001) and hypo/akinesia of proximal myocardial anterior wall (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Late survival and freedom from cardiac events are excellent after SVR, also when concomitant MVCAD requires complete revascularization. Ventricular arrhythmias and impaired left ventricular anterior wall function are predictors of worse outcome.
authors: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Policlinico Tor Vergata, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy. pa.nardi@hotmail.it
authors: Paolo
authors: P
authors: Nardi
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Pellegrino
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Scafuri
authors: Irene
authors: I
authors: Binaco
authors: Patrizio
authors: P
authors: Polisca
authors: Fiore
authors: F
authors: Iorio
authors: Francesco
authors: F
authors: Versaci
authors: Luigi
authors: L
authors: Chiariello
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies