Off-Pump Bilateral Skeletonized Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting in Octogenarians

Background: We compared postoperative outcomes in octogenarians who underwent off-pump isolated coronary artery bypass grafting for multivessel disease using either skeletonized bilateral or single internal thoracic artery (ITA).Methods and Results: Among 1,532 patients who underwent isolated corona...

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Published in:Circulation Journal 2023/01/25, Vol.87(2), pp.312-319
Main Authors: Hachiro, Kohei, Suzuki, Tomoaki, Takashima, Noriyuki, Kamiya, Kenichi
Format: Article
Language:English
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Aged, 80 and over
Coronary artery bypass grafting
Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump - adverse effects
Coronary Artery Disease - etiology
Deep sternal wound infection
Humans
Mammary Arteries - surgery
Octogenarian
Octogenarians
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome
Wound Infection - complications
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Summary:Background: We compared postoperative outcomes in octogenarians who underwent off-pump isolated coronary artery bypass grafting for multivessel disease using either skeletonized bilateral or single internal thoracic artery (ITA).Methods and Results: Among 1,532 patients who underwent isolated coronary artery bypass grafting between 2002 and 2021, 173 octogenarians were analyzed retrospectively. After inverse probability of treatment weighting, we found no statistically significant difference regarding patients’ preoperative characteristics. No patient experienced deep sternal wound infection. More patients in the single than bilateral ITA group died within 30 days after surgery (5.0% vs. 0%, respectively; P=0.003). The mean follow-up duration was 4.2 years. At 5 years, the freedom from overall death following bilateral versus single ITA grafting was 78.2% and 53.7%, respectively (log-rank test, P=0.003), and freedom from major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) was 67.9% and 44.8% respectively (log-rank test, P=0.002). In multivariable Cox models, bilateral ITA grafting was significantly associated with a lower risk of overall death (hazard ratio [HR] 0.555; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.342–0.903; P=0.018) and MACCE (HR 0.586; 95% CI 0.376–0.913; P=0.018).Conclusions: Compared with single ITA grafting, off-pump skeletonized bilateral ITA grafting is associated with lower rates of overall death and MACCE in octogenarians undergoing CABG and does not increase the risk of deep sternal wound infection.
ISSN:1346-9843
1347-4820
1347-4820
DOI:10.1253/circj.CJ-22-0443