TY - JOUR AU - Jovicic, Vladimir AU - Putnik, Svetozar AU - Djordjevic, Aleksandar AU - Grgurevic, Anita AU - Atanasijevic, Igor AU - Terzic, Dusko AU - Jovicic, Milica PY - 2019/09/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Investigation of the Postoperative Complications Rate and Predictors in Patients Undergoing Surgery due to Associated Carotid and Coronary Occlusive Disease JF - The Heart Surgery Forum JA - HSF VL - 22 IS - 5 SE - DO - 10.1532/hsf.2005 UR - https://journal.hsforum.com/index.php/HSF/article/view/2005 SP - E385-E389 AB - <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Background:</strong> The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of postoperative complications in patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and simultaneous carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and find predictors of postoperative complications. </span></p><p class="p1"><strong>Methods:</strong> We retrospectively evaluated 86 patients after simultaneous CABG and CEA. Inclusion criteria were: patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis with a reduction of the carotid lumen diameter of more than 70% detected with Doppler ultrasound and diagnosed with one, two, or three vessel coronary artery disease with coronary stenosis more than 75% and hemodynamic significant stenosis of the left main artery. Exclusion criteria were patients with urgent and previous cardiac surgery and patients with myocardial infarction and stroke in the past one month. We monitored preoperative (ejection fraction, coronarography status), operative (number of grafts, on-pump or off-pump technique) and postoperative (extubation, unit care and hospital stay, bleeding and reoperation) details and complications (myocardial infarction, neurological events, inotropic agents and transfusion requiry, infection, arrhythmic complication, renal failure, mortality).</p><p class="p1"><span class="s2"><strong>Results:</strong> Postoperative complications were observed in 18 (29.9%) patients. Two patients (2.3%) had postoperative stroke and one patient (1.2%) had transient ischemic attack (TIA). Previous stroke was a predictor for increased postoperative neurological events (<em>P</em> </span><span class="s3">&lt;</span><span class="s2"> .05). Intrahospital mortality was 8.1%. </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Simultaneous CEA and CABG were performed with low rates of stroke and TIA. Previous stroke was identified as a predictor for increased postoperative neurological complications.</span></p> ER -