Assessment of perioperative predictive factors influencing survival in patients with postinfarction ventricular septal perforation. Classified by the site of myocardial infarction.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

The present study was designed to identify the perioperative factors and to consider a counterplan for the improvement of surgical results, based on the site of myocardial infarction.

METHODS:

Sixteen patients with postinfarction ventricular septal perforation underwent surgical repair. The operation was performed 5+/-3 days after the onset of ventricular septal perforation using the same method, an infarctectomy and reconstruction of the septum and right and left ventricular walls with a single Dacron patch. The ventricular septal perforation was anterior in 11 patients and posterior in 5. Preoperative hemodynamics between survivors and non-survivors were compared. Left ventricular wall motion was estimated using echocardiography by wall motion score (divided into 17 segments and each segment was graded on a fourpoint scale: normal, 0; hypokinetic, 1; severe hypokinetic, 2; a- or dyskinetic, 3) and summed up.

RESULTS:

The operative mortality was 36% in 11 patients with anterior ventricular septal perforation. In non-survivors compared to survivors, wall motion score was greater (25+/-4 vs 18+/-4, p<0.01) and all values were over 20. The value of the cardiac index divided by Qp/Qs was lower (0.98+/-0.09 vs 1.44+/-0.31, p<0.02) and all were under 1.1. In 5 patients with inferior ventricular septal perforation, the operative mortality was 40%. In non-survivors compared to survivors, wall motion score was greater (18, 18 vs 7, 2, 12) and the right atrial pressure was greater (18, 19 vs 10, 9, 9 mmHg) due to a right ventricular infarction.

CONCLUSIONS:

The patients with poor left ventricular wall motion were lost for reasons unrelated to the site of myocardial infarction. Moreover, a cardiac index over Qp/Qs in anterior ventricular septal perforation and the existence of a right ventricular infarction in inferior ventricular septal perforation was predictive of operative mortality.

• Authors: N Hirata, K Sakai, S Sakaki, M Ohtani, S Nakano, H Matsuda
• Journal: The Journal of cardiovascular surgery (J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino)) Vol. 41 Issue 4 Pg. 547-52 (Aug 2000) ISSN: 0021-9509 [Print] Italy
• PMID: 11052281 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Female
• Hemodynamics
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Prognosis
• Retrospective Studies
• Risk Factors
• Survival Analysis
• Ultrasonography
• Ventricular Septal Rupture (diagnostic imaging, mortality, physiopathology)