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Background: We were interested in how favorable an influence total arterial reconstruction has on the clinical outcome of patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery., Methods: From January 2002 to December 2013, a total of 1,064 patients underwent isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery at our institution. Of these 1,064 patients, 763 underwent total arterial revascularization (AR) and 301 underwent a combination of artery and vein revascularization (AVR). We compared the clinical results between the two groups using the propensity score matching technique., Results: In all, 260 cases from the AVR group and 520 from the AR group were successfully matched. All procedures were performed using the off-pump technique without conversion to on-pump. Eight patients in the AVR group (3.1%) and 5 in the AR group (1.0%) died in hospital. Multivariate analysis revealed that chronic kidney disease (odds ratio 6.9, p < 0.001), urgency (odds ratio 7.3, p < 0.001), and body mass index (odds ratio 1.3, p = 0.02) were independent risk factors for hospital death. Follow-up was complete for 97.6% of the patients to a maximum of 13 years. According to the Kaplan-Meier method, the rate of 12-year freedom from all causes of death was 69.7% for the AVR group and 72.6% for the AR group (p = 0.002), and the corresponding rates for major adverse cardiac events were 83.9% and 87.7% (p = 0.009). By multivariate Cox regression analysis, total arterial reconstruction was identified as a preventive factor for late cardiac events., Conclusions: Total arterial revascularization has some degree of favorable effect on the long-term clinical outcome of patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery., (Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Background: We were interested in whether current multiarterial off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery can improve the clinical outcome for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients., Methods: Between January 2002 and December 2013, 1,064 consecutive patients underwent isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery at our hospital; 551 of these patients had diabetes. Of these 551 patients, 166 had insulin-dependent diabetes (IDM) and the remaining 385 had noninsulin-dependent diabetes (NIDM). The propensity score was calculated to achieve one-to-two matching sets (IDM 143 versus NIDM 286)., Results: Ten patients (3.5%) in the NIDM group and 2 patients (1.4%) in the IDM group died in hospital (p = 0.18). Insulin dependency was not an independent risk factor for any early death or major complications. Follow-up was complete for 96.5% of the patients, with a mean follow-up of 4.6 ± 3.8 years. Overall survival rate at 10 years was 76.3% for the NIDM group and 73.1% for the IDM group (p = 0.79). The rate of 10-year actuarial freedom from major adverse cardiac events was 89.6% in the NIDM group and 86.3% in the IDM group (p = 0.72). Multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analysis revealed that female sex, congestive heart failure, previous myocardial infarction, lower ejection fraction, and at least one major complication were independent risk factors for combined cardiac events. Insulin dependency did not affect any outcome in the long term., Conclusions: Early and long-term outcomes after off-pump skeletonized multiarterial coronary artery bypass graft surgery were similar among the IDM and NIDM patients., (Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Background: There is at present no accurate figure for the long-term patency rate of the skeletonized gastroepiploic artery (GEA)., Methods: From January 2002 to July 2012, 956 consecutive patients underwent isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCABG) surgery at our institution. Of these, the 424 who underwent GEA grafting and postoperative GEA graft evaluation were the subjects of the present study. Of these 424 subjects, 155 (36.6%) underwent long-term outpatient evaluation using multidetector computed tomography angiography., Results: No patient was converted from off pump to on pump surgery. Overall 30-day mortality was 0.5% (2 of 424). The overall early (4 to 21 days after surgery) patency rate of the skeletonized GEA was 98.2% (599 of 610 anastomoses). A total of 215 GEA anastomoses, including 55 sequential bypasses, were followed for long-term evaluation, of which 12, including three sequential bypasses, were found to be occluded. The overall patency rate in skeletonized GEA grafting over a mean follow-up period of 73 months was 94.4% (203 of 215). The cumulative patency rate of the skeletonized GEA was 97.8% at 30 days, 96.7% at 1 year, 96.0% at 3 years, 94.7% at 5 years, and 90.2% at 8 years after surgery. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analysis showed that target vessel stenosis (p = 0.008, hazard ratio 0.086, 95% confidence interval: 0.014 to 0.53) was the only independent predictor of late graft occlusion., Conclusions: We demonstrated an accurate long-term patency rate for the skeletonized GEA superior to that for pedicled GEA or saphenous vein graft. A low-grade degree of target vessel stenosis was the only risk factor for late GEA occlusion., (Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)