Introduction: Cardiovascular surgery is a relatively young but progressively evolving field in medicine. More specifically, in the past decades, cardiac surgery achieved significant advances in understanding the causes, progression and treatments of ischemic heart disease (IHD). The IHD is the most common coronary disease, and it ranks first in morbidity and mortality in the developed world. It justifies the need for significant fundamental research as well as its study in clinical practice. It now includes specialized cardiovascular centres with the complex specialized treatments. A group of interventional cardiologists capable of performing routine examinations of the coronary veins using selective angiography has been established. They can eventually also perform percutaneous coronary interventions with direct stent implants. Thus the advances have been made in comprehensive indication of the patients towards their optimal treatments under the regime of a cardio-team. Such team comprises of a cardio-surgeon, interventional cardiologist, echocardiography specialist and the attending physician who is usually the cardiologist. The IHD treatments involve preventive cardiology with the regime measures and checks, pharmacotherapy, interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery to spa treatment and...

Objetivos: O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a perviedade da artéria torácica interna direita (ATID) pediculada, anteroaórtica em anastomose para a região anterior do coração na cirurgia de revascularização do miocárdio (RM), em relação à artéria torácica interna esquerda (ATIE). Métodos: No período de dezembro de 2008 a dezembro de 2011, 100 pacientes foram selecionados para serem submetidos a cirurgia de RM sem circulação extracorpórea (CEC), de forma prospectiva. Eles foram agrupados em Grupo 1 (G-1) e Grupo 2 (G-2), cada um com 50 pacientes, com randomização por computador e conhecimento da técnica no início da cirurgia. No G-1, os pacientes receberam ATIE para a região anterior do coração e complementação da RM com a ATID livre para ramos da circunflexa (CX) e outros enxertos arteriais ou venosos para a coronária direita (CD) e/ou ramos. Os pacientes do G-2 receberam ATID pediculada para a região anterior do coração e complementação da RM com ATIE, pediculada, para ramos da CX e outros enxertos arteriais ou venosos para a CD e/ou ramos. A perviedade das artérias torácicas internas direita e esquerda foi avaliada através de angiotomografia coronária multislice, 64 canais, no 6º mês de pós-operatório. Resultados: Os dois grupos eram semelhantes quanto aos dados clínicos de pré-operatório, como exemplo: diabetes mellitus, hipertensão arterial sistêmica, obesidade. Os dois grupos apresentaram predominância do sexo masculino com 75,6% e 88% nos grupos 1 e 2, respectivamente. Cinco pacientes migraram do G-1 para o G-2 em virtude de doença ateromatosa na aorta ascendente e um deles foi excluído por ter que utilizar enxerto composto. A média de anastomoses distais no G-1 foi de 3,48 (DP=0,72), e no G-2 foi de 3,20 (DP=0,76). Não ocorreu mediastinite em nenhum paciente. Uma paciente do G-1 apresentou osteomielite, e necessitou de intervenção cirúrgica. Dois pacientes do G-1 foram submetidos a reoperação por sangramento. Os resultados das angiotomografias coronarianas com 96 pacientes re-estudados mostram que todas as ATIs, fosse a direita ou a esquerda, utilizadas pediculadas para a região anterior do coração encontravam-se sem oclusões ou estenoses, configurando 100% de perviedade. No G-1, um enxerto livre da ATID para ramos da CX apresentava oclusão total, em dois pacientes havia estenose leve, em um deles havia estenose moderada na anastomose proximal na aorta ascendente e outro apresentava diminuição de calibre na sua porção distal. Em três pacientes o enxerto de segmento de veia safena para ramos da CD se encontravam ocluídos. No G-2, dois pacientes apresentavam oclusão total na ATIE pediculada para ramos da CX, e outro apresentava estenose moderada na porção distal da ATIE utilizada sequencial para dois ramos marginais. Em dois pacientes o enxerto de segmento de veia safena para ramos da CD se encontravam ocluídos. Não houve óbitos em nenhum dos grupos. Conclusão: A cirurgia de RM com utilização da ATID pediculada, anterógrada para o RIA, apresenta resultado semelhante ao da ATIE utilizada para essa mesma coronária. / Objective: To analyze the patency of the pedicled, anteroaortic, right internal mammary artery (RIMA) anastomosed to the left anterior descending (LAD) and branches in coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), in comparison with the left internal mammary artery (LIMA). Methods: From December 2008 to December 2011, 100 patients were selected to undergo a prospective off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery and were randomly divided by computer into Group 1 (G-1) and Group 2 (G-2), so that the technique was known at the beginning of the surgery. In each group, with 50 patients, the patency of both right and left internal mammary arteries, which were used pedicled to the LAD, was comparatively studied through coronary computed tomography angiography. G-1 had 50 patients who received the LIMA to the LAD or LAD/diagonal (sequential) and had the CABG complemented with the free RIMA to circumflex branches and other arterial or venous grafts to the right coronary artery (RCA) and/or branches. G-2 had 50 patients who received the pedicled RIMA to the LAD or LAD/diagonal (sequential) and had the CABG complemented with the pedicled LIMA to circumflex branches and other arterial or venous grafts to the RCA and/or branches. Results: Both groups were similar in pre-operative clinical data, such as: diabetes mellitus, systemic arterial hypertension, obesity. Also, there was predominance of males in both groups, with 75,6% and 88% in Groups 1 and 2 respectively. Five patients were switched from G-1 to G-2 owing to atheromatous disease in the ascending aorta, and one of them was dropped for having to use composite graft. The average of distal anastomosis in G-1 was 3,48 (standard deviation (SD=0,72) and in G-2 was 3,20 (SD=0,76). Mediastinitis didn\'t occur in any patient. A patient from G-1 had osteomyelitis that required surgical intervention. Two patients from G-1 underwent reoperation because of bleeding. The 64-slice coronary computed tomography angiography was performed in the 6th postoperative month; 96 patients have been re-studied so far and all pedicled IMAs to the LAD were patent. In G-1 a free RIMA graft to the circumflex branches presented total occlusion, another two had a discreet stenosis and in one moderate at the proximal anastomosis and one more had a string signal at the distal portion. In G-2 two patients had total occlusion of the pedicled LIMA to circumflex artery branches, and another one presented moderate stenosis at its distal portion. In two patients the saphenous vein graft to the RCA branches were occluded. There were no deaths in any of the groups. Conclusion: The CABG surgery using the pedicled, anteroaortic RIMA to the LAD has a similar outcome to that of the LIMA used for this same coronary.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T12:51:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 isabelathomaztakakura_dissert.pdf: 1870282 bytes, checksum: 871ee642969bbc10aeb356aeefd91988 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-10 / Recent studies have shown that low heart rate variability (HRV) is a clear indication of an increased risk for severe ventricular arrhytmia and sudden cardiac. However, the traditional techniques of data analysis in time and frequency domain are often not sufficient to characterize the complex dynamics of heart beat generation. Hence, different attempts have been reported to apply the concept of nonlinear dynamics (chaos domain) to this problem as the methods Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA), Autocorrelation (Tau), Hurst Exponent (HE), Lyapunov Exponent (LE), Poincaré Plot (SD1 e SD2). Objective: We speculated that patients with decreased chaotic behavior in the preoperative period would tend to present higher morbidity and mortality in the length of postoperative stay. Methods: Seventy-two non-selected patients (mean age 58.4±10.2 years) with coronary artery disease and elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) indication, were studied. We had their HRV with Polar Advanced S810 and analyzed with the above chaos, time and frequency domain variables. The occurrences of relevant events during the length of postoperative stay as neurological, infectious and renal complications, severe arrhytmias or death were compared. The Fisher s Test was used to compare the occurrence of events. We described Sensibility, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value, Positive Likelihood Ratio and ODDS Ratio (CI 95%). Results: In comparison of groups death versus no death (Scenario 1) of the Lyapunov Exponent, for example, the ODDS Ratio was 11.5 (CI 95% 1.261 to 104.92, P=0.0171). The Scenario 3 (2 or more events versus 0 to 1 event) xxiv showed the Odds Ratio 12.414 (CI 95% 1.515 to 101.72, P=0.0048). Conclusions: The patients with decreased HRV evaluated from some nonlinear dynamic analysis methods before CABG surgery present higher morbidity and mortality in the length of postoperative stay. / Estudos recentes têm mostrado que a baixa variabilidade da freqüência cardíaca (VFC) é um claro indicador de maior risco para arritmia ventricular grave e morte súbita. Contudo, as técnicas tradicionais de análises de dados no domínio do tempo e da freqüência nem sempre são suficientes para caracterizar a dinâmica complexa da geração do batimento cardíaco. Conseqüentemente, diferentes tentativas têm sido feitas para aplicar o conceito de dinâmica não-linear (domínio do caos) para este problema, como os métodos não-lineares: Análise de Flutuações Depurada de Tendências (DFA), Autocorrelação (Tau), Expoente de Hurst (HE), Expoente de Lyapunov (LE), Desvio-padrão da perpendicular à linha de identidade no gráfico de Poincaré (SD1e SD2). Objetivo: Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi demonstrar se a redução do comportamento caótico (avaliado por métodos de dinâmica nãolinear) no período pré-operatório à revascularização do miocárdio acarretaria maior morbidade e mortalidade no período pós-operatório, durante a internação. Método: No presente estudo, 72 pacientes não-selecionados (média de idade de 58,4±10,2 anos) com doença arterial coronária e indicação eletiva de cirurgia foram incluídos e sua VFC foi captada pelo Polar Advanced S810 por meio da análise dos intervalos RR. A VFC foi analisada por variáveis do domínio do tempo (SDNN, RMSSD), do domínio da freqüência (LF nu, HF nu, a relação LF/HF) e do domínio do caos, citadas acima. A ocorrência de eventos relevantes durante o pós-operatório foi avaliada, como complicações neurológicas, infecciosas e renais, arritmias graves ou morte. O Teste Exato de xxii Fisher foi usado para comparar a ocorrência de eventos. Também foram registrados a Sensibilidade, Especificidade, Valor Preditivo Positivo, Valor Preditivo Negativo, Likelihood Ratio Positivo e ODDS Ratio com 95% de Intervalo de Confiança para a ocorrência de eventos. Um valor de P ≤ 0.05 foi considerado significante. Resultados: De acordo com medidas feitas pelo Expoente de Lyapunov, por exemplo, o Cenário 1 (comparando grupo de pacientes que faleceram no pós-operatório hospitalar com o grupo dos que não faleceram) evidenciou Odds Ratio de 11,5 (IC 95% 1,261 a 104,92) com valor de P de 0,0171 e o Cenário 3 (2 ou mais eventos contra 0 a 1 evento) evidenciou Odds Ratio de 12,414 (IC 95% 1,515 a 101,72) com valor de P de 0,0048. Conclusão: A avaliação da VFC por métodos de dinâmica não-linear em pacientes no período pré-operatório da cirurgia de revascularização do miocárdico, mostrou tratar-se de ferramenta promissora como preditora de maior morbidade e mortalidade durante o período de pós-operatório hospitalar.

Objetivos: O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a perviedade da artéria torácica interna direita (ATID) pediculada, anteroaórtica em anastomose para a região anterior do coração na cirurgia de revascularização do miocárdio (RM), em relação à artéria torácica interna esquerda (ATIE). Métodos: No período de dezembro de 2008 a dezembro de 2011, 100 pacientes foram selecionados para serem submetidos a cirurgia de RM sem circulação extracorpórea (CEC), de forma prospectiva. Eles foram agrupados em Grupo 1 (G-1) e Grupo 2 (G-2), cada um com 50 pacientes, com randomização por computador e conhecimento da técnica no início da cirurgia. No G-1, os pacientes receberam ATIE para a região anterior do coração e complementação da RM com a ATID livre para ramos da circunflexa (CX) e outros enxertos arteriais ou venosos para a coronária direita (CD) e/ou ramos. Os pacientes do G-2 receberam ATID pediculada para a região anterior do coração e complementação da RM com ATIE, pediculada, para ramos da CX e outros enxertos arteriais ou venosos para a CD e/ou ramos. A perviedade das artérias torácicas internas direita e esquerda foi avaliada através de angiotomografia coronária multislice, 64 canais, no 6º mês de pós-operatório. Resultados: Os dois grupos eram semelhantes quanto aos dados clínicos de pré-operatório, como exemplo: diabetes mellitus, hipertensão arterial sistêmica, obesidade. Os dois grupos apresentaram predominância do sexo masculino com 75,6% e 88% nos grupos 1 e 2, respectivamente. Cinco pacientes migraram do G-1 para o G-2 em virtude de doença ateromatosa na aorta ascendente e um deles foi excluído por ter que utilizar enxerto composto. A média de anastomoses distais no G-1 foi de 3,48 (DP=0,72), e no G-2 foi de 3,20 (DP=0,76). Não ocorreu mediastinite em nenhum paciente. Uma paciente do G-1 apresentou osteomielite, e necessitou de intervenção cirúrgica. Dois pacientes do G-1 foram submetidos a reoperação por sangramento. Os resultados das angiotomografias coronarianas com 96 pacientes re-estudados mostram que todas as ATIs, fosse a direita ou a esquerda, utilizadas pediculadas para a região anterior do coração encontravam-se sem oclusões ou estenoses, configurando 100% de perviedade. No G-1, um enxerto livre da ATID para ramos da CX apresentava oclusão total, em dois pacientes havia estenose leve, em um deles havia estenose moderada na anastomose proximal na aorta ascendente e outro apresentava diminuição de calibre na sua porção distal. Em três pacientes o enxerto de segmento de veia safena para ramos da CD se encontravam ocluídos. No G-2, dois pacientes apresentavam oclusão total na ATIE pediculada para ramos da CX, e outro apresentava estenose moderada na porção distal da ATIE utilizada sequencial para dois ramos marginais. Em dois pacientes o enxerto de segmento de veia safena para ramos da CD se encontravam ocluídos. Não houve óbitos em nenhum dos grupos. Conclusão: A cirurgia de RM com utilização da ATID pediculada, anterógrada para o RIA, apresenta resultado semelhante ao da ATIE utilizada para essa mesma coronária. / Objective: To analyze the patency of the pedicled, anteroaortic, right internal mammary artery (RIMA) anastomosed to the left anterior descending (LAD) and branches in coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), in comparison with the left internal mammary artery (LIMA). Methods: From December 2008 to December 2011, 100 patients were selected to undergo a prospective off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery and were randomly divided by computer into Group 1 (G-1) and Group 2 (G-2), so that the technique was known at the beginning of the surgery. In each group, with 50 patients, the patency of both right and left internal mammary arteries, which were used pedicled to the LAD, was comparatively studied through coronary computed tomography angiography. G-1 had 50 patients who received the LIMA to the LAD or LAD/diagonal (sequential) and had the CABG complemented with the free RIMA to circumflex branches and other arterial or venous grafts to the right coronary artery (RCA) and/or branches. G-2 had 50 patients who received the pedicled RIMA to the LAD or LAD/diagonal (sequential) and had the CABG complemented with the pedicled LIMA to circumflex branches and other arterial or venous grafts to the RCA and/or branches. Results: Both groups were similar in pre-operative clinical data, such as: diabetes mellitus, systemic arterial hypertension, obesity. Also, there was predominance of males in both groups, with 75,6% and 88% in Groups 1 and 2 respectively. Five patients were switched from G-1 to G-2 owing to atheromatous disease in the ascending aorta, and one of them was dropped for having to use composite graft. The average of distal anastomosis in G-1 was 3,48 (standard deviation (SD=0,72) and in G-2 was 3,20 (SD=0,76). Mediastinitis didn\'t occur in any patient. A patient from G-1 had osteomyelitis that required surgical intervention. Two patients from G-1 underwent reoperation because of bleeding. The 64-slice coronary computed tomography angiography was performed in the 6th postoperative month; 96 patients have been re-studied so far and all pedicled IMAs to the LAD were patent. In G-1 a free RIMA graft to the circumflex branches presented total occlusion, another two had a discreet stenosis and in one moderate at the proximal anastomosis and one more had a string signal at the distal portion. In G-2 two patients had total occlusion of the pedicled LIMA to circumflex artery branches, and another one presented moderate stenosis at its distal portion. In two patients the saphenous vein graft to the RCA branches were occluded. There were no deaths in any of the groups. Conclusion: The CABG surgery using the pedicled, anteroaortic RIMA to the LAD has a similar outcome to that of the LIMA used for this same coronary.

Ce mémoire adresse la problématique de la présentation des résultats chirurgicaux en chirurgie cardiaque. Les complications postopératoires sont d’étiologie et de sévérité variées, peuvent atteindre plusieurs systèmes physiologiques et nécessitent différents degrés de traitements. Elles consistent en une source importante de morbidités pour le patient, mais ne sont toutefois pas toujours présentées de manière optimale dans les essais cliniques. En effet, les complications sont actuellement rapportées dans les études de manière hétérogène, ce qui nuit à la recherche en compliquant les comparaisons d’études, les revues systématiques et les méta-analyses. Plusieurs complications individuelles ont des systèmes de classification utilisés sporadiquement dans certains articles en chirurgie cardiaque, mais ceux-ci ne sont pas déployés de manière répandue. D’autre part, des classifications universelles s’appliquant à toutes les complications potentielles ont été adoptées dans la littérature chirurgicale, mais n’ont toutefois pas été implémentées en chirurgie cardiaque. L’étude menée dans le cadre de ce travail a adapté et appliqué la classification de Clavien-Dindo (CCD) et le Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI) pour la première fois en chirurgie cardiaque. Mon étude démontre que les comorbidités importantes en chirurgie cardiaque et les chirurgies plus complexes sont prédictives de la sévérité des complications selon ces deux échelles. Également, le CCD et le CCI corrèlent avec les durées de séjour aux soins intensifs et à l’hôpital après une chirurgie cardiaque. En conclusion, la CCD et le CCI représentent de manière fiable la complexité de l’évolution postopératoire en chirurgie cardiaque. Cela pourrait adresser le manque de standardisation dans la présentation des complications dans les essais cliniques et uniformiser la manière de rapporter les événements adverses en chirurgie cardiaque. Cela aurait également de multiples applications dans les initiatives d'amélioration de la qualité des soins, dans les évaluations des procédures et des procédés, ainsi que dans l'avancement de la recherche. / This memoir addresses the challenge of outcome reporting in cardiac surgery. Postoperative complications are of varying etiology and severity, can affect several physiological systems and require different degrees of treatment. They are an important source of morbidity for the patient but are not always optimally presented in clinical trials. Indeed, complications are currently reported in studies in a heterogeneous manner, which hampers research by complicating study comparisons, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Many individual complications have classification systems that are used sporadically in some articles in cardiac surgery, but these are not widely used. On the other hand, universal classifications that apply to all potential complications have been adopted in the surgical literature, but none have been implemented in cardiac surgery yet. The study conducted as part of this work adapted and applied the Clavien-Dindo Complications Classification (CDCC) and the Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI) for the first time in cardiac surgery. My study shows that the important comorbidities in cardiac surgery and more complex surgeries are predictive of the severity of complications according to both scales. Moreover, the CCD and CCI also correlate with the lengths of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital after cardiac surgery. In conclusion, the CDCC and CCI reliably represent the complexity of the postoperative evolution in cardiac surgery. This could address the inconsistency with which complications are currently presented in surgical trials and standardize the way adverse outcomes are reported in cardiac surgery. This would have multiple applications in quality of care improvement initiatives, in evaluations of procedures and processes, and in advancement of research.

INTRODUCTION : Les greffons de veine saphène interne (GVS) sont encore régulièrement utilisés comme conduits en chirurgie de pontage aorto-coronarien (PAC). Les dommages subis par les segments de veine saphène pendant le prélèvement et le stockage favorisent une dysfonction endothéliale qui se manifeste par une diminution de la production d'oxyde nitrique et/ou par une augmentation du niveau de stress oxydant pouvant entraîner une défaillance du greffon veineux se traduisant par une occlusion. La solution saline héparinée est la solution de préservation de référence malgré plusieurs études démontrant ses effets néfastes sur les GVS. GALA est une solution de préservation de greffons autologues vasculaires spécialement développée pour préserver l'intégrité structurale et fonctionnelle de la couche endothéliale des greffons utilisés en chirurgie de pontages aorto-coronariens. OBJECTIF : Comparer la préservation de l'intégrité des fonctions endothéliales des greffons de veine saphène après le stockage dans la solution GALA versus dans la solution saline héparinée dans le cadre d’une étude contrôlée et randomisée en étudiant la réactivité vasculaire en chambres d’organes. RÉSULTATS : Les segments de GVS d'un total de quinze patients ont été obtenus et divisés en anneaux de 3 mm de largeur. Il n'y avait pas de différences significatives dans les niveaux de contraction en réponse au chlorure de potassium, à la phényléphrine, ni dans les concentrations de phényléphrine nécessaires pour atteindre le niveau de contraction cible entre les anneaux du groupe GALA versus le groupe de saline héparinée. Les courbes dose-réponse du groupe solution GALA ont démontré une amélioration significative des relaxations dépendantes de l'endothélium par rapport au groupe solution saline héparinée. Les contractions et relaxations indépendantes de l'endothélium induites respectivement par la phényléphrine et le nitroprussiate de sodium étaient similaires dans les anneaux de GVS des deux groupes. CONCLUSION : L’utilisation intra-opératoire d'une solution développée spécifiquement pour la préservation de l’intégrité endothéliales présente un potentiel d’avantages cliniques chez les patients qui subissent une chirurgie de PAC. Les observations précédentes suggèrent que la solution GALA pourrait réduire la dysfonction endothéliale associée à la défaillance des greffons veineux et incite des évaluations à long terme plus approfondies dans le cadre d’essais cliniques. / INTRODUCTION: Saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) are still commonly used as conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Injury to SVGs during harvesting and storage promotes endothelial dysfunction, which is attributed to a decrease in production of nitric oxide and/or increased level of oxidative stress that can lead to vein graft failure (VGF). Heparinized saline is still the standard of care intraoperative preservation solution despite several studies demonstrating its detrimental effects on SVGs. GALA is an innovative one-time intraoperative graft storage solution developed to preserve endothelial integrity. OBJECTIVE: To investigate, in a randomized controlled study, endothelial functional integrity of saphenous vein grafts following storage in GALA vs heparinized saline using ex vivo vascular reactivity studies in organ chamber experiments. RESULTS: Segments of saphenous vein grafts from a total of fifteen patients were obtained and divided into 3 mm wide rings for evaluation. There were no significant differences in the levels of contraction in response to potassium chloride and to phenylephrine between groups, nor in the concentrations of phenylephrine needed to achieve the target level of contraction in saphenous vein graft rings. Concentration-response curves of the GALA group demonstrated a significant improvement in endothelium-dependent relaxations compared to the heparinized saline group. Endothelium-independent contractions and relaxations induced by phenylephrine and sodium nitroprusside, respectively, were not altered in saphenous vein graft rings from both groups. CONCLUSIONS: Intraoperative application of a solution developed for graft preservation demonstrated a potential benefit to protect endothelial and vascular functional integrity in saphenous vein grafts of patients undergoing CABG. These data suggest that the GALA solution may reduce endothelial dysfunction associated with vein graft failure and warrant further long-term evaluation in clinical trials.