Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.  1999 Jun;32(6):525-531.

Clinical Analysis of 500 Cases of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

• Shin YC
• Kim KB
• An H
• Chae H
• Rho JR
• Suh KP

Abstract

BACKGROUND: We analyzed five hundred patients who underwent either isolated or concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) between November 1981 and June 1997. MATERIAL AND METHOD: There were 330 males and 170 females with a mean age of 57.4+/-8.9 years. To evaluate the preoperative status, we performed electrocardiograghy, echocardiography, MIBI scan, Duplex sonogram, common blood test including CK and LDH and coronary angiography. RESULT: Preoperative clinical diagnoses were unstable angina in 282 (56.4%), stable angina in 141 (28.2%), postinfarction angina in 58 (11.6%), acute myocardial infarction in 8 (1.6%), variant angina in 7 (1.4%) and failed percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in 4 (0.8%) patients. Preoperative angiographic diagnoses were three-vessel disease in 263 (52.6%), two-vessel disease in 93 (18.6%), one-vessel disease in 71 (14.2%), left main disease in 68 (13.6%), and others in 5 (1.0%) patients. Patients had various risk factors for coronary disease, and the frequency of the risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes and smoking showed increasing tendency year by year. We used saphenous vein grafts in 1143, internal thoracic artery grafts in 442, radial artery graft in 17, and gastroepiploic artery graft in 1 anastomosis. The mean number of grafts was 3.2+/-1.2 per patient. Concomitant operations were prosthetic valve replacement or valvuloplasty in 31, coronary endarterectomy and angioplasty in 27, left main coronary angioplasty in 13, carotid endarterectomy in 5, and neurologic problems, bleeding, and perioperative myocardial infarction. The mean follow-up period was 25+/-23 months and there were 5 cases of reoperation.
CONCLUSION
We hope that the surgical results would improve with the accumulation of experience, application of new myocardial protection technique, and timely intervention of mechanical assisted devices.

Keyword

Coronary artery bypass grafting

MeSH Terms

Angina, Stable
Angina, Unstable
Angioplasty
Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Artery Bypass*
Coronary Disease
Coronary Vessels*
Diagnosis
Echocardiography
Endarterectomy
Endarterectomy, Carotid
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Gastroepiploic Artery
Hematologic Tests
Hemorrhage
Hope
Humans
Hypertension
Male
Mammary Arteries
Myocardial Infarction
Radial Artery
Reoperation
Risk Factors
Saphenous Vein
Smoke
Smoking
Transplants
Smoke