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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 4, 130-135, Copyright © 1990 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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Cardiac surgery in the octogenarian

KS Naunheim, PA Dean, AC Fiore, LR McBride, DG Pennington, GC Kaiser, VL Willman and HB Barner
Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Medical Center, MO.

The increasing safety of cardiac surgery has led to the frequent referral of octogenarians for operation. Between 1980 and 1989, we reviewed our experience with 103 octogenarians (59 male, 44 female; mean age 82 years) to determine the surgical risk factors and outcome in the elderly population. There were 71 coronary bypasses (CABG), 11 aortic valve replacements (AVR), 11 AVR-CABG, 4 mitral valve replacements (MVR), 3 MVR-CABG and 3 AVR-MVR-CABG. Seventeen patients died during hospitalization (16.5%) including 9 CABG (13%); 1 AVR (9%), 2 AVR-CABG (18%), 2 MVR (50%), 1 MVR-CABG (33%) and 2 AVR-MVR-CABG (67%). Statistical analysis of 22 perioperative variables suggested that a preoperative intraaortic balloon, a history of congestive heart failure, mitral valve replacement, urgent operation, need for preoperative inotropic support and the number of anastomoses performed were significant or marginally significant (P less than 0.15) univariate predictors of operative mortality. Multivariate analysis revealed that the need for a preoperative intraaortic balloon (F = 13.1), history of congestive heart failure (F = 6.8), and MVR (F = 6.7) were significant (P less than 0.001) independent predictors of mortality. Postoperative complications included arrhythmias in 36 patients (35%), respiratory insufficiency in 11 (11%), reversible neurological deficit in 15 (14%), and a permanent neurological deficit in 6 patients (6%). Actuarial survival was 90% and 82% at 1 and 2 years, respectively. Seven of 86 (8%) long term survivors sustained a stroke in the follow-up interval. The mean follow-up of survivors was 23 +/- 19 months with a mean improvement in NYHA class of 1.4 (P less than 0.001).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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