Carotid endarterectomy for critical stenosis prior to cardiac surgery: Should it be done? A retrospective cohort study

International Journal of Surgery
Mohammed AshrafiVittorio Perricone

Abstract

Stroke remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality after cardiac surgery affecting 2% of patients. Extra-cranial carotid artery disease has been implicated in the aetiology of post cardiac surgery stroke. The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with or without staged carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in a tertiary referral centre. A 5 year retrospective study was performed. The primary endpoints were defined as peri-operative stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) with secondary outcome defined as death within 30 days of surgery. In total 5924 cardiac procedures and 29 staged CEA's were performed. The rate of stroke and MI was significantly higher in patients undergoing staged CEA pre-cardiac surgery compared to patients undergoing cardiac surgery with confirmed or presumed normal carotid arteries (10.34% vs 1.43%; P = .008 and 13.79% vs 0.38%; P < .0001, respectively). There was no significant difference in the stroke and MI rate in those patients undergoing cardiac surgery with confirmed or presumed normal carotid arteries compared to those with significant carotid disease undergoing cardiac surgery with no prior carotid intervention (1.43% vs 3.16%; P...Continue Reading

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