Clinical Experience with Assisted Venous Drainage Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Elective Cardiac Reoperations
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https://doi.org/10.1532/HSF98.20061194Abstract
Reoperative cardiac surgery is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality due to technical problems at sternal reentry, which can result in laceration of the right ventricle, innominate vein injury, or embolization from patent grafts. To minimize the risk associated with reentry, we adopted the method of assisted venous drainage in the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit with peripheral cannulation for cardiac reoperations. From March 1999 to May 2003, a series of 52 patients (38 males; mean age 48.7 years, range 4 months to 78 years) underwent cardiac reoperations performed with centrifugal pump venous-assisted cardiopulmonary bypass. EuroSCORE was 7.34 ± 3.9 (range, 4-19). The reoperations were coronary artery bypass graft (25 patients), valve replacement/repair (18 patients), and complex pediatric procedures (11 patients). The studied adverse events were structural damage at reentry, mortality, blood loss, stroke, and hemolysis. Complications at sternotomy were damage to the innominate vein (1 patient) and aorta (1 patient) with blood loss of 625 and 225 mL, respectively. Four patients required intraaortic balloon pump or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (n = 1) for hemodynamic support on weaning off cardiopulmonary bypass. Three patients died in the postoperative period. Our experience with centrifugal pump-assisted venous drainage in cardiac reoperations has shown excellent results, with reduced risk of damage to vital structures on sternal reentry. In cases in which structural damage did occur, blood loss was minimal.References
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