10-year follow-up of patients with and without mediastinitis

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
J H BraxtonGerald T O'Connor

Abstract

Mediastinitis is a dreaded complication of CABG surgery. Short-term outcomes have been described, but there have been only a few long-term studies. We examined the survival of patients undergoing isolated CABG surgery between 1992 and 2001. Mediastinitis was identified during the index admission. Proportional hazards regression was used to calculate adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI 95%). Among 36,078 consecutive patients, there were 5749 deaths during 148,319 person years of follow-up. There were 418 cases of mediastinitis (1.16%). The incidence of death was 11.15 per 100 person/years with mediastinitis and 3.81 deaths/100 person years without. (P < 0.001). We also examined the mortality rates of patients who survived at least 6 months after their CABG surgery. Patients with mediastinitis had an incidence rate of 5.70 deaths per 100 person/years while those without had a rate of 2.66 deaths per 100 person/years (P < 0.001). After adjustment for baseline differences in patient and disease characteristics, the hazard ratio was 2.12 (CI95% = 1.86,2.58; P < 0.001). The adjusted hazard ratios for patients who survived 6 months postsurgery was 1.70 (CI95% = 1.36,2.13; P < 0.001). Mediastinitis is associate...Continue Reading

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