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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:1281-1288
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Surgery for Acquired Cardiovascular Disease

Effects of on-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery on right ventricular function

Isabelle Michaux, MD a , d , * , Miodrag Filipovic, MD a , Karl Skarvan, MD a , Stephan Schneiter, MD b , Regina Schumann, MD a , Hans-Reinhard Zerkowski, MD c , Franziska Bernet, MD c , Manfred D. Seeberger, MD a

a Department of Anesthesia, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
b Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
c Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
d Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Mont-Godinne University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium

Received for publication September 13, 2005; revisions received December 22, 2005; accepted for publication January 13, 2006.

* Address for reprints: Isabelle Michaux, MD, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Mont-Godinne University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-5530 Yvoir, Belgium (Email: isabelle.Michaux{at}rean.ucl.ac.be).

OBJECTIVES: Right ventricular dysfunction is a possible cause of cardiac failure after coronary surgery. The use of cardiopulmonary bypass is regarded as a major cause for its occurrence, and it has been postulated that performing coronary surgery without cardiopulmonary bypass might reduce ventricular dysfunction. Therefore, this prospective, randomized, controlled study tested the hypothesis that off-pump coronary surgery would better preserve right ventricular systolic and diastolic function than conventional bypass surgery.

METHODS: Fifty patients scheduled for elective coronary artery bypass surgery were randomly assigned to conventional or off-pump surgery. Right ventricular function was assessed by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography immediately before and after coronary surgery. Right ventricular ejection fraction was used as a marker of global systolic function and tricuspid early/late (atrial) ratio as a marker of the global diastolic function. Peak systolic and early diastolic velocities of the lateral tricuspid annulus were studied to assess systolic and diastolic function in the area of the right ventricular free wall.

RESULTS: Surgery was completed according to randomization in 48 of 50 patients. Preoperative characteristics were similar in both groups. Intraoperative differences between the two groups included a higher volume of allogeneic blood transfusion in the conventional surgery group. At the end of surgery, global systolic right ventricular function was similarly maintained and diastolic function similarly impaired in both groups. There were no significant intergroup differences in any of the echocardiographic markers of right ventricular function.

CONCLUSIONS: Off-pump surgery did not better preserve right ventricular systolic and diastolic function than did conventional coronary surgery.

Abbreviations and Acronyms CCABG = conventional coronary artery bypass grafting; E/A ratio = early/atrial ratio; Ea = early peak diastolic velocity; LV = left ventricular; OPCAB = off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery; RV = right ventricular; Sa = peak systolic velocity; TDI = tissue Doppler imaging




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