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Ann Thorac Surg 1993;55:1192-1196
© 1993 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

^a Section of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Section of Hematology and Oncology, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida USA
^b Section of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota USA

Accepted for publication September 1, 1992.

^_* Address reprint requests to Dr Finck, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, 4500 San Pablo Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32224.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a disease of the elderly. It tends to have a variable clinical course. Because of the patients' immunologically dysfunctional state, there has been reluctance to perform open cardiac procedures because of concern about early postoperative sepsis leading to death. To assess the risk of coronary artery bypass grafting in elderly patients, the records of 26 patients (mean age, 69.6 ± 4.9 years) with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting between January 1975 and July 1990 were retrospectively reviewed. Nineteen underwent isolated coronary artery bypass grafting, and 7 had combined procedures. The operative mortality rate was 7.7%. Postoperative infections developed in 6 patients (23.1%): pneumonia in 3 and sternal osteomyelitis, acute parotiditis, and bacteremia in 1 each. One of these 6 patients died of acute Serratia pneumonitis. Twenty-four patients (92.3%) were discharged from the hospital an average of 10.6 ± 7.7 days postoperatively. Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia can undergo coronary artery bypass grafting with acceptable mortality but with increased risk of postoperative infection.

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