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Observational Study
. 2022 Jul;36(7):1934-1941.
doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2021.11.014. Epub 2021 Nov 13.

One-Year Outcome After Cardiac Surgery for Patients With Cancer: An Observational Monocentric Retrospective Study

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Observational Study

One-Year Outcome After Cardiac Surgery for Patients With Cancer: An Observational Monocentric Retrospective Study

Hadrien Portefaix et al. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Jul.

Abstract

Objectives: Cardiac surgery increasingly is being performed in patients with a history of or with active cancer. The aim of this study was to analyze the association between a history of cancer and 1-year mortality after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).

Design: An observational monocentric study, with data collected from a prospective institutional database was conducted.

Setting: A single academic center.

Participants: All consecutive patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB between 2005 and 2017.

Intervention: None.

Methods: A history of cancer was preoperatively identified. Mortality rates were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. The 1-year mortality risk of patients with and without cancer was compared using a multivariate Cox model.

Measurements and main results: During the study period, 12,143 patients underwent cardiac surgery with CPB, including 4,681 (39%) isolated coronary artery bypass surgeries. Their median EuroSCORE II was 3.1, interquartile range 1.5-to-6.4. Nine hundred thirty patients (8%) had a diagnosis of cancer, out of whom 469 (50%) were diagnosed ≤5 years before the index surgery; 103 (11%) patients had hemopathy, and 825 (89%) had solid cancers. The estimated unadjusted 1-year mortality was significantly higher among patients with cancer, 11% (95% confidence interval [CI] 10-14) versus 8% (95%CI 7-9) p < 0.01. After adjustment, a diagnosis of cancer was not associated with the risk of 1-year mortality (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.17 [95%CI 0.96-1.43]; p = 0.13).

Conclusions: In a large cohort of patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB, cancer was not independently associated with 1-year mortality. An isolated cancer history should not lead to denial of cardiac surgery. The impact of cancer on complications and long-term survival after cardiac surgery requires further research.

Keywords: cancer; cardiac surgical procedures; cardio-oncology; cardiopulmonary bypass; epidemiology; mortality.

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Declaration of interests The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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