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Figure 10. Multi-vessel reconstruction employing bilateral internal<br />

thoracic artery and venous grafts.<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

0<br />

0<br />

1<br />

100%<br />

1965-1975<br />

Cases 1<br />

40<br />

10<br />

20%<br />

1976-1985<br />

Cases 50<br />

Redo CABG with<br />

associated procedures = 361<br />

OP survival = 287<br />

OP death = 74 20.4%<br />

Figure 12. Redo CABG with associated procedures<br />

struction, and left ventricular aneurysm repair. (Other<br />

associated procedures included arch aneurysm resection,<br />

lung resection, cholecystectomy, utilization of the<br />

intraaortic balloon pump IABP and 233 other miscellaneous<br />

operations.) The operative mortality remained<br />

little changed over four decades, averaging 11.5% for<br />

these higher risk, complex procedures. Long-term graft<br />

patency studies demonstrated arterial grafts to be superior<br />

to venous grafts at 5- and 10-year follow up. In the<br />

last two decades of the series, almost 100% of patients<br />

received a combination of arterial and venous grafts<br />

particularly in redo coronary artery operations (Figure<br />

10). Internal thoracic and radial arteries were most<br />

frequently utilized.<br />

176<br />

45<br />

20.3%<br />

1986-1995<br />

Cases 221<br />

71<br />

18<br />

18.3%<br />

1996-2005<br />

Cases 87<br />

Figure 11. Redo CABG only; STS benchmark 2002 = 5%;<br />

2006 = 4%<br />

Bjork Shiley<br />

Carpentier<br />

0 250 500 750 1,000<br />

Total operative procedures = 1,516<br />

OP deaths = 96<br />

Figure 13. Aortic valves<br />

Combined carotid and coronary artery revascularization<br />

were performed in 293 patients presenting with<br />

symptoms of both cerebral vascular insufficiency and<br />

coronary artery ischemia or with severe structural<br />

abnormalities of the carotid artery; mortality and morbidity<br />

were 6% in this high-risk group. The rationale of<br />

the combined procedure was to reduce the risk of stroke<br />

near and long term.<br />

Redo Coronary Artery Bypass Alone<br />

Reoperative coronary artery bypass procedures<br />

accounted for 1,077 cases (Figure 11), the majority of<br />

which occurred in the third decade of Dr. Howell’s<br />

practice. There were 1,047 survivors and 30 hospital<br />

6 vII (1) 2011 | MDCvJ<br />

600<br />

500<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

100<br />

0<br />

20<br />

0<br />

1965-1975<br />

Cases 20<br />

Cutter<br />

DeBakey<br />

Duramedics<br />

Hancock<br />

McGovern<br />

Pericardial<br />

Bioprosthesis<br />

Starr Edwards<br />

St. Jude<br />

Redo CABG only = 1,077<br />

OP survival = 1,047<br />

OP death = 30 2.7%<br />

Unnamed<br />

Values<br />

8<br />

1<br />

8<br />

6<br />

6<br />

25<br />

10<br />

8<br />

271<br />

130<br />

11<br />

3.9%<br />

1976-1985<br />

Cases 282<br />

460<br />

563<br />

14<br />

2.4%<br />

1986-1995<br />

Cases 77<br />

854<br />

193<br />

5<br />

2.5%<br />

1996-2005<br />

Cases 198

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