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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;63:143-146
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Open Heart Operations After Renal Transplantation

Christoph Dresler, MD, Kai Uthoff, MD, Thorsten Wahlers, MD, Volker Kliem, MD, Jochen Schäfers, MD, Karl Oldhafer, MD, Hans-Georg Borst, MD

Departments of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nephrology, and Abdominal and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Accepted for publication July 23, 1996.

Background. Because of the increasing number of renal transplantations performed, secondary cardiac operations in these patients are discussed concerning their impact on patient and graft survival.

Methods. We reviewed our experience in 45 patients (33 male and 12 female) who underwent open heart operations after previous renal transplantation. Thirty-one patients (group I) received coronary artery bypass grafting and 14 (group II) underwent valve replacement. Mean age at the time of operation was 55 ± 9 years. The interval between renal transplantation and cardiac operation was 57 ± 39 months (range, 5 days to 174 months). All patients had functioning renal allografts with preoperative serum creatinine levels ranging from 100 to 338 mol/mL (mean ± standard deviation, 195 ± 86).

Results. Overall early operative mortality (30 days) was 8.8% (group I, 1 patient; group II, 3 patients). Underlying causes of death were septic endocarditis (n = 2, group II), necrotizing enterocolitis (n = 1, group I), and myocardial infarction (n = 1, group II). One further patient in group II also died of septic endocarditis after 69 days (in-hospital death). The mean follow-up of the 40 surviving patients was 44 ± 31 months. There was another late death (24 months postoperatively) caused by coagulopathy. Four patients had returned to hemodialysis at intervals of 27 to 83 months (mean, 51 months) because of renal transplant failure. In all patients, the function of the renal allograft was not impaired by open heart operation.

Conclusions. Open heart operations in renal transplant recipients have acceptable mortality and morbidity rates. In almost all patients, function of the transplanted organ can be maintained at the preoperative level.




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