October 18, 2016BMC AnesthesiologyOpen Access

Outcome of cardiac surgery in patients with low preoperative ejection fraction

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Population

781 patients with pre-operative LVEF ≤40% undergoing cardiac surgery at a single university hospital. Mean…

Design

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Follow-up

perioperative

Authors

MPMarina PieriHeart Failure & Transplant ABAlessandro BellettiVita-Salute San Raffaele University FMFabrizio MonacoCardiac Surgery

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Implication

Warrants preoperative risk counseling for COPD and hemodynamic support in low-LVEF surgery; leaves open need for prospective validation.

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Population

781 patients with pre-operative LVEF ≤40% undergoing cardiac surgery at a single university hospital. Mean pre-operative LVEF was 33.9 ± 6.1%.

Intervention

Cardiac surgery (including coronary artery bypass graft [31%], mitral valve surgery [22%], and aortic valve surgery [19%])

Outcome

Perioperative mortalityhard clinical

Cardiac surgery in patients with LVEF ≤40% has an acceptable overall perioperative mortality of 5.6%, though patients undergoing mitral valve surgery or requiring preoperative hemodynamic support face higher risks.

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Pieri et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d6a96149bd8e2c574a172 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-016-0271-5

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Outcome of cardiac surgery in patients with low preoperative ejection fraction

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Outcome of cardiac surgery in patients with low preoperative ejection fraction

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