Off-pump surgery in preventing perioperative stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting: A retrospective multicentre study

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Objectives: To determine the effect of the off-pump technique in preventing stroke development during the early perioperative period after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Methods: Patients undergoing isolated CABG surgery were enrolled from 21 Spanish cardiac-surgery centres. Baseline variables related to perioperative stroke risk were recorded in the preoperative (age, gender, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, prior stroke, cardiac failure: preoperative New York Heart Association class III-IV and/or left ventricular ejection fraction <40%, non-elective priority of surgery, peripheral arteriopathy, chronic renal failure) and intraoperative periods (on/off-pump performance). The Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group (NNECDSG) stroke risk schema was used to stratify stroke risk and compare observed neurological outcomes in this study. Results: A total of 26 347 patients were included in the study. Global perioperative stroke incidence was 1.38%. Non-elective priority of surgery (OR = 2.37), peripheral arteriopathy (OR = 1.62), cardiac failure (OR = 2.98), prior stroke (OR = 1.57) and chronic renal failure (OR = 6.16) were found to be independent risk factors for perioperative stroke in uni-and multivariate models; Hosmer-Lemeshow test: χ2 = 4.62, P = 0.59. Perioperative stroke incidence increased whenever NNECDSG score or the number of preoperative risk factorsincreased. However, on-vs off-pump surgery did not show statistical differences in NNECDSG strata. For patients with two or more preoperative independent risk factors, off-pump surgery showed a significant reduction in perioperative stroke incidence (4.29 vs 6.76%, P < 0.05), particularly when one of these factors was chronic renal failure or preoperative cardiac failure. However, when both factors were present concomitantly there was no difference between on and off-pump techniques, P < 0.0001. Conclusions: Off-pump surgery has a lower perioperative stroke incidence than on-pump only in cases associated with cardiovascular stroke-risk factors, in particular, with chronic renal failure and preoperative cardiac failure, but also with peripheral arteriopathy, prior stroke and non-elective surgery. The perioperative stroke rate remains high in cases with two or more preoperative stroke risk factors, even when using the off-pump technique, particularly when chronic renal failure is present. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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Hornero, F., Martín, E., Rodríguez, R., Castellà, M., Porras, C., Romero, B., … Sota, E. P. D. L. (2013). Off-pump surgery in preventing perioperative stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting: A retrospective multicentre study. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 44(4), 725–731. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezt067

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