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Ann Thorac Surg 1994;58:1069-1072
© 1994 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Coronary revascularization in the elderly: Determinants of operative mortality

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgey, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

Accepted for publication February 17, 1994.

^_* Address reprint requests to Dr Curtis, Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Missouri, 245 Major Hall, Dc119.0, One Hospital Dr, Columbia, MO 65212.

Over a 13-year period, 668 patients 70 years of age or older underwent isolated primary coronary artery bypass grafting at our institution. There were 472 men and 196 women, ranging from 70 to 90 years of age (median age, 74 years). Hospital mortality was 5.2% ( [equation]). In patients 70 to 79 years of age. hospital mortality was 4.2% ( [equation]), whereas in patients 80 years of age or alder, mortality was 14.7% ( [equation]; p < 0.001). Twenty-seven clinical or hemodynamic variables hypothesized as predictors of operative mortality were examined. Mortality was higher in women than in men (9% versus 3.6%;P = 0.006). Those who died were a mean of 3 years older (77 versus 74 years old; p < 0.05) and were more likely to have unstable angina or Canadian class III or IV angina (p < 0.01). Patients requiring urgent operations, preoperative intraaortic balloon assist, intravenous nitroglycerin, or inotropic agents, and those with preoperative hypotension or cardiac arrest were most likely to die in the hospital (p < 0.001). Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed advancing age, female sex, bypass time, urgency of operation, preoperative cardiac arrest, and unstable angina as primary determinants of mortality (p < 0.05). Although mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting increases with age, the greatest risk of death is in the acutely ill patient with few options for management other than surgical intervention.

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