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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 92, 847-852, Copyright © 1986 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. A growing surgical problem

US Page, JE Okies, LQ Colburn, JC Bigelow, NW Salomon and AH Krause

The incidence of prior percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in surgical cases is nearly doubling yearly. In 1985, 11.4% of our bypass patients had one or more prior angioplasties. One hundred thirty- five patients with prior angioplasty are compared to 2,205 patients without angioplasty undergoing surgical revascularization. The mortality is 3.2 times higher in the angioplasty patients than in the control patients and the perioperative infarction rate is 2.5 times higher. Forty-four patients were taken directly to the operating room from the catheterization laboratory, 50 were operated on within 10 days, and 41 underwent operation more than 10 days after angioplasty. All of these late failures were of the lesion previously dilated. The infarction rate was less in patients taken immediately to the operating room on an emergency basis than in those whose operation was delayed up to 10 days (30% versus 70%). All patients who died had angioplasty of the anterior descending coronary artery. Angioplasty of this artery increases operative mortality should surgical treatment become necessary acutely. Patients should be informed before angioplasty of the increased surgical risks after a failed angioplasty procedure.

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