COMPARISON OF EARLY AND LATE COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CORONARY-ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT-SURGERY WITH AND WITHOUT CONCOMITANT PLACEMENT OF AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR
Eg. Daoud et al., COMPARISON OF EARLY AND LATE COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CORONARY-ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT-SURGERY WITH AND WITHOUT CONCOMITANT PLACEMENT OF AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR, The American heart journal, 130(4), 1995, pp. 780-785
Previous studies have reported a significant morbidity and mortality a
ssociated with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in conjunct
ion with the placement of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (I
CD) with an epicardial lead system. In the absence of a control group,
how significantly the component of concomitant placement of the ICD s
ystem contributes to these untoward outcomes remains unknown. The purp
ose of this study was to assess the short-and long-term complications
in patients undergoing CABG surgery in conjunction with the placement
of an ICD with epicardial leads and to compare these complications wit
h those of patients who had only CABG surgery (control group). The stu
dy group (group A) consisted of 56 patients who underwent CABG surgery
and placement of an ICD pulse generator with epicardial leads. A cont
rol group (group B) consisted of 56 patients who underwent CABG surger
y only during the same time period. The two groups were matched for ag
e, sex distribution, left ventricular function, surgical approach, num
ber of bypass grafts per patient, bypass pump time, and length of foll
ow-up period. The early mortality for group A was 7.1% versus 1.8% for
group B (p > 0.05). The incidence of early morbidity (congestive hear
t failure, infection, supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias) fo
r groups A and B was similar (26.8% vs 25.0%, p > 0.05). The incidence
of late mortality and morbidity (progression of congestive heart fail
ure, recurrence of coronary events, chronic atrial fibrillation) for g
roups A and group B were 7.7% versus 5.5% (p > 0.05) and 23.1% versus
21.8% (p > 0.05), respectively. However, death caused by cardiopulmona
ry difficulties was more frequent in group A than group B (12.5% vs 1.
8%, p < 0.05). With the availability of the nonthoracotomy lead system
and the pulse generator capable of delivering biphasic shock waveform
, to place such an ICD system at a later time after the CABG surgery a
ppears to be the preferred approach to treat patients who need both su
rgical coronary revascularization and ICD.