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Observational Study
. 2023 Nov 2;59(11):1943.
doi: 10.3390/medicina59111943.

Multivessel Coronary Disease and Severe Atherosclerotic Aorta: Real-World Experience

Ivo Gasparovic  1 , Panagiotis Artemiou  1 , Andrej Domonkos  1 , Branislav Bezak  1 , Andrea Gazova  2 , Jan Kyselovic  3   4 , Michal Hulman  1
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Observational Study

Multivessel Coronary Disease and Severe Atherosclerotic Aorta: Real-World Experience

Ivo Gasparovic et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Background and Objectives: Surgical revascularisation of patients with atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta remains a challenge. Different surgical strategies have been described in coronary surgical patients to offer alternative revascularisation strategies other than the conventional surgical revascularisation in patients unsuitable for it. The aim of this study is to compare the real-world outcomes between two groups of patients who underwent off-pump surgery (left internal mammary artery graft to the left anterior descending artery) or a hybrid with a percutaneous revascularisation procedure at a later stage. Materials and Methods: This is a single-centre retrospective observational study. Between the years 2010 and 2021, 91/6863 patients (1.33%) were diagnosed with severe atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta. All the patients were treated with off-pump revascularisation (91 patients), and the cardiologist would decide at a later stage whether the rest of the vessels would be treated with percutaneous revascularisation (25 patients). Results: There was no statistical difference in the various preoperative characteristics, except for coronary artery left main disease (30.30% vs. 64%; p = 0.0043). The two groups had no statistical differences in the perioperative characteristics and postoperative complications. The 1-, 5-, and 10-year mortality rates in the two groups were 6.1% vs. 0%, 59% vs. 80%, and 93.9% vs. 100%, respectively (off-pump vs. hybrid with percutaneous revascularisation procedure, p = 0.1958). Conclusions: Both strategies have high long-term comparable mortality. The off-pump surgery and the HCR procedure at a later stage may be solutions for these high-risk patients, but the target treatment should be complete HCR revascularisation during the index hospitalization.

Keywords: atherosclerosis of the ascending aorta; hybrid revascularisation; off-pump coronary artery revascularisation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Flowchart showing the patient enrolment. CABG = coronary artery bypass graft; OPCAB = off-pump coronary artery bypass; LIMA = left internal mammary artery; LAD = left anterior descending artery; HCR = hybrid coronary revascularisation; PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Kaplan–Meier analysis showing the long-term survival in both groups.
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