Role of Concomitant Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Valve Surgery for Infective Endocarditis.

ABSTRACT: It is current practice to perform concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) who have relevant coronary artery disease (CAD). However, CABG may add complexity to the operation. We aimed to investigate the impact of concomitant CABG on perioperative outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for IE. We retrospectively used data of surgically treated IE patients between 1994 and 2018 in six German cardiac surgery centers. We performed inverse probability weighting (IPW), multivariable adjustment, chi-square analysis, and Kaplan-Meier survival estimates. CAD was reported in 1242/4917 (25%) patients. Among them, 527 received concomitant CABG. After adjustment for basal characteristics between CABG and no-CABG patients using IPW, concomitant CAB

SUBMITTER: Diab M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8267636 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature