Table 2 Postoperative complications and early outcome by patients groups
From: How decisive is the number of distal arterial anastomoses in coronary bypass surgery?
Complications | All Patients (N = 3685) | One arterial graft (N = 969) | Two arterial grafts (N = 1883) | Three arterial grafts (N = 833) | P Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Myocardial infarction | 63 (1.7%) | 18 (1.9%) | 24 (1.3%) | 21 (2.5%) | 0.064 |
Ventricular arythmia | 35 (0.9%) | 12 (1.2%) | 15 (0.8%) | 8 (0.9%) | 0.514 |
Reoperation bleeding | 51 (1.4%) | 9 (0.9%) | 23 (1.2%) | 19 (2.3%) | 0.034 |
Low cardiac output | 31 (0.8%) | 10 (1.1%) | 15 (0.8%) | 6 (0.7%) | 0.736 |
Stroke | 13 (0.4%) | 4 (0.4%) | 4 (0.2%) | 5 (0.6%) | 0.272 |
Mediastinitis | 21 (0.6%) | 2 (0.2%) | 15 (0.8) | 4 (0.5%) | 0.129 |
Abdominal event | 8 (0.2%) | 1 (0.1%) | 4 (0.2%) | 3 (0.4%) | 0.504 |
Pneumonia | 21 (0.6%) | 5 (0.5%) | 9 (0.5%) | 7 (0.8%) | 0.495 |
All complications | 243 (6.6%) | 61 (6.3%) | 109 (5.8%) | 73 (8.8%) | 0.014 |
Early mortality | 59 (1.6%) | 21 (2.1%) | 27 (1.4%) | 11 (1.3%) | 0.432 |
Cardiac Causes | 33 (56%) | 12 (57%) | 14 (52%) | 7 (64%) | 0.794 |