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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 104, 990-995, Copyright © 1992 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Combined cardiac and abdominal aortic aneurysm operations. The dual operation on cardiopulmonary bypass

S Westaby, A Parry, CR Grebenik, R Pillai and P Lamont
Oxford Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, England.

Eight patients underwent both cardiac operation and repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm. All had respiratory impairment and significant impairment of left ventricular function, whereas six patients had severe diffuse distal coronary disease. In all patients the cardiac procedure was performed first, and the patients continued to receive cardiopulmonary bypass. Rewarming was not commenced until the abdominal repair was well under way, to protect the vital organs. There were no problems in weaning the patients from bypass, and six of the patients were extubated within 24 hours; one required ventilation for 36 hours. One patient died of colonic infarction complicated by kidney failure without being extubated. Another patient who was initially extubated in 11 hours required reintubation because of poor lung function and eventually died of multisystem organ failure caused by bilateral lower limb ischemia that persisted despite embolectomies. All survivors are well and in New York Heart Association functional class I or II between 3 and 18 months postoperatively. We conclude that for patients considered unfit for abdominal aortic aneurysm operations because of the nature of the cardiac disease, the combined operation with cardiopulmonary bypass is both safe and effective.

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