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Symptom progression following on-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients with peripheral arterial disease

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Abstract

Objective

This study aims to examine whether cardiac surgery leads to symptom progression in the early postoperative period in patients with the peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and evaluate the difference between on-pump (OPCAB) and off-pump (ONCAB) coronary artery bypass graft surgery with regard to the symptom progression.

Methods

This retrospective study included one hundred consecutive adult patients with PAD at Fontaine stage 2b (pain-free walking distance less than 100 m) undergoing ONCAB and one hundred consecutive adult patients with PAD at Fontaine stage 2b (pain-free walking distance less than 100 m) undergoing OPCAB. Symptom progression was defined as the development of ischemic rest pain (Fontaine stage 3).

Results

In the first week after surgery, 12 patients in the OPCAB group and 53 patients in the ONCAB group had postoperative symptom progression (p < 0.001). Rest pain resolved in most of these patients on the 15th postoperative day. At the end of the second month, rest pain resolved in all patients. Logistic regression analysis revealed that cardiac surgery with CPB, ABI < 0.5, postoperative nadir hct levels ≤ 25%, and intraoperative tissue hypoxia were independently associated with postoperative symptom progression.

Conclusions

In summary, we found that cardiac surgery may lead to symptom progression in patients with severe claudication in the early postoperative period. Our results suggest that OPCAB may lead to lower rates of symptom progression compared to ONCAB.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bower Hospital, Diyarbakir, 21300, Turkey

    Utkan Sevuk

  2. Division of Transplantation, Dicle University, Organ Nakli Klinigi, Yenişehir, Silvan Yolu, Diyarbakir, 21100, Turkey

    Mehmet Veysi Bahadir

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Sevuk, U., Bahadir, M.V. Symptom progression following on-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients with peripheral arterial disease. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 71, 158–166 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-022-01855-x

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