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- Title
Cold Blood Potassium Cardioplegia: A Five-Year Experience With 400 Consecutive Patients.
- Authors
Morishita, Yasuo; Taira, Akira
- Abstract
The purpose of this study is clinically to evaluate the efficacy of cold blood potassium cardioplegia (BPC) during ischemia. Four hundred patients, including 141 congenital heart diseases (Group I), 220 acquired valve-heart diseases (Group n) and 39 other acquired cardio-vascular diseases (Group HI), were operated on using cold BPC. In Group I, the hospital death occurred in 12 patients and the late death in four. There were 21 hospital and five late deaths in Group II. In Group III, the hospital and late deaths occurred in four and in one, respectively. In a total of 400 patients, overall cardiac-related hospital mortality was 5.5%, which is within the established ones reported by others. Furthermore, in valve-heart surgery, there was no close relationship between the length of aortic occlusion or poor ventricular function (less than 0.4 of ejection fraction), and cardiac-related hospital death. Therefore, we conclude that cold BPC provides excellent myocardial protection.
- Subjects
POTASSIUM; INDUCED cardiac arrest; ISCHEMIA; HEART diseases; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; DEATH; PATIENTS
- Publication
Vascular Surgery, 1985, Vol 19, Issue 3, p147
- ISSN
0042-2835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/153857448501900302