Five years' experience with aortocoronary bypass grafting.
During a 5-year period (Apr. 14, 1970 to Apr. 14, 1975) 930 patients underwent aortocoronary bypass grafting; the procedure was done as an emergency in 141. Of the entire group 3.3% died at operation, 1.6% died in hospital and 5.8% died later; of the patients undergoing emergency grafting 12.1% died at operation and 5.7% died later. From a detailed analysis of the first 600 patients it was found that both operative and late mortality were clearly related to two factors: severe left ventricular dysfunction at the time of operation and inadequate surgical treatment because of insertion of insufficient numbers of grafts or because of poor blood flow through the grafts.
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