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The Optimal Timing and Operation Pattern of Emergent Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting after Acute Myocardial Infarction

Objective To summarize the efficacy and clinical experiences of emergent coronary artery bypass grafting (E-CABG) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to discuss the operative opportunity and procedures. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 21 patients with AMI undergoing E-CABG in Sun Yatsen Cardiovascular Disease Hospital between June 1999 and December 2009. Among the patients, there were 14 males and 7 females with their age ranged from 24 to 81 years (63.9±12.4 years). Six patients were operated within 6 hours after the onset of AMI, 7 patients were operated from 6 hours to 3 days after the onset of AMI, and 8 patients were operated from 3 days to 30 days after the onset of AMI. Eight patients had the cardiogenic shock after AMI, one had rupture of ventricular septum and cardiogenic shock, two had rupture of coronary artery after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, eight had unstable angina and frequent ventricular arrhythmia, one had ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest, and one had cardiac trauma. Ten patients were treated with intraaortic balloon pump (IABP). Conventional CABG was performed for 12 patients, off-pump CABG for 5 patients, and on-pump-beating CABG for 4 patients. Results Five patients died after E-CABG with a mortality of 23.8% which was obviously higher than the overall CABG mortality (23.8% vs. 3.1%, χ2=21.184, P＜0.05). There were respectively 2, 2 and 1 deaths with a mortality of 33.3%, 28.6% and 12.5% respectively for operations within 6 hours, 6 hours to 3 days and 3 to 30 days after the onset of AMI. The mortality of those patients who were operated within 3 days after AMI was obviously lower (P＜0.05). The primary causes of death were low cardiac output syndrome, perioperative acute myocardial infarction after CABG and sapremia. There was one death each for patients operated with off-pump and on-pump-beating CABG. Sixteeen patients were discharged from the hospital. The follow-up was from 6 months to 10 years. There were 6 late deaths among which 5 died of cardiac failure accompanied by pulmonary infection, one died of noncardiac factor. Ten patients survived at present, and the quality of life among 5 patients was unsatisfactory. Conclusion The mortality of E-CABG is obviously higher in patients operated within 3 days of AMI. With the support of IABP, if the operation can be carried out 3 days after the onset of AMI, the surgical success rate will be greatly improved by adopting proper offpump and onpumpbeating procedures.