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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80:1719-1727
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons


Original article: Cardiovascular

Is Reoperation Still a Risk Factor in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery?

Joseph F. Sabik, III, MD a , * , Eugene H. Blackstone, MD a , b , Penny L. Houghtaling, MS b , Peter A. Walts, MD a , Bruce W. Lytle, MD a

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
b Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Accepted for publication April 25, 2005.

* Address correspondence to Dr Sabik, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave / Desk F24, Cleveland, OH 44195 (Email: sabikj{at}ccf.org).

Presented at the Poster Session of the Forty-first Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Tampa, FL, Jan 24–26, 2005.

BACKGROUND: Hospital mortality for reoperative coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is approaching that of primary CABG. This raises two questions: (1) has experience neutralized the risk of reoperation attributable to its greater difficulty, or (2) has experience neutralized the risk attributable to the higher-risk profile of reoperative patients?

METHODS: From 1990 to 2003, 21,568 CABG procedures were performed, of which 4,518 (21%) were reoperations: 3,919 first, 552 second, 43 third, 3 fourth, and 1 fifth. Reoperative patients had a higher-risk profile than primary patients, with more vascular disease, left ventricular dysfunction, and coronary artery disease (all p < 0.0001). Logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with hospital death and to develop a propensity score for reoperation, which was used to (1) adjust multivariable analyses of death and (2) compare outcomes in matched patients.

RESULTS: Hospital mortality was 4.3% (168 of 3,919) for first reoperation, 5.1% (28 of 552) for second, and 6.4% (3 of 47) for third or more, compared with 1.5% (263 of 17,050) for primary operations. Risk of both primary and reoperative CABG decreased with experience (p > 0.0002); however, reoperative risk fell markedly in the mid-1990s. In both the overall and matched-pairs analyses, reoperation was a risk factor before 1997 (p ≤ 0.008), but not after (p = 0.2). Reoperation within 1 year of previous CABG increased risk (p < 0.0001). Risk attributable to left ventricular dysfunction decreased with experience (p = 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS: Hospital mortality for reoperative CABG has been consistently higher than for primary operation, but this difference has narrowed considerably. Patient characteristics, not reoperation itself, now have greater influence.




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