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Does ethnicity have an impact on outcome of CABG?
- M El Saegh1Email author,
- A Saleh2,
- H El Saegh3 and
- P Yiu4
https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-8-S1-O95
© El Saegh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
Published: 11 September 2013
Keywords
- Creatinine
- Renal Function
- Renal Impairment
- Hospital Mortality
- Impaired Renal Function
Background
Assessment of the impact of gender on long term outcome of CABG.
Methods
1 year retrospective post-operative analysis of 520 patients who underwent isolated CABG surgery based on morbidity and mortality. The patients were divided into: Caucasians(C); 444 patients and Asians (A); 76 patients.
Results
Our results showed high significant difference in the Asian group compared to Caucasians for pre-discharge creatinine; p <0.05. There was significant difference concerning post operative arrhythmias “incidence of AF”, p<0.05 in the Caucasians group.
The statistical analysis was insignificant in terms of additive and logistic EuroSCORE, hospital mortality, incidence of post operative infection, post operative renal impairment, ITU readmission, post operative stay, reopening or the need for inotropes.
Conclusion
Asians are more susceptible to impaired renal functions post operatively; on the other hand Caucasians are more susceptible to post operative arrhythmias so care should be taken to address these complications in each group.
Authors’ Affiliations
Copyright
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
