Population
200 consecutive patients undergoing isolated aortocoronary bypass reoperation, mean age 59 years, 81% male.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Perioperative/hospital stay
Authors
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Severe angina predicts mortality and MI in reoperations; hypothesis-generating for timing strategies, should not yet change practice.
Severe anginal status is the dominant predictor of adverse outcomes in coronary reoperations, suggesting that emergency reoperations should be avoided when possible to decrease operative mortality and perioperative infarction rates.
L. Noyez (1997) studied this question.