PMID: 9420683Mar 1, 1994Paper

Risk stratification in the elderly patient after coronary artery bypass grafting: the prognostic value of radionuclide cineangiography

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology : Official Publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
P SupinoJ S Borer

Abstract

Recent data have shown that assessment of left ventricular function by radionuclide cineangiography (RNCA) predicts survival and cardiac events among non-age-selected patients who have previously undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, the prognostic value of this noninvasive approach is not known for elderly patients who now undergo CABG with progressively increasing frequency and who survive longer because of operation. Such easily applied prognostic indexes may be useful to determine whether survival benefits are likely to be maintained or additional therapy should be considered. To obtain information on factors related to long-term survival and cardiac events among elderly patients after CABG and, specifically, to determine the prognostic implications of left ventricular performance at rest and during exercise for predicting all causes of death, major nonsurgical cardiac events (death or myocardial infarction), and event-free or surgery-free survival, we evaluated the late postoperative course of 41 patients, aged 65 years and older, who had undergone RNCA 1 month or more (mean 2.3 +/- 2.4 years; range 0.1 to 9 years) after CABG. Average follow-up among patients with event-free survival was 8.8 years afte...Continue Reading

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