From November 1989 through December 1995, eighteen patients underwent emergency coronary artery bypass grafting without cardiopulmonary bypass following percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). All patients had lesions in the left anterior descending coronary artery, diagonal coronary artery or right coronary artery, when we could reach without using cardiopulmonary bypass. In all cases we used a temporary intraluminal shunt in order to allow perfusion through the coronary artery and prevent ischemic effects. Three (16.66%) patients had myocardial infarction before going to emergency surgery and 4 (22.22%) patients had important ST segment elevation. The cardiogenic shock was present in 3 (16.66%) patients. The in-hospital mortality was zero. We compared the several authors mortality rates and ours by a statistic analysis.
Myocardial revascularization; Myocardial revascularization; Angioplasty; Coronary vessels; Blood vessels prostheses; Extracorporeal circulation