Routine Coronary Angiography and Functional Cardiac Tests before Resection of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Patients without Symptoms of Myocardial Infarction

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Cardiac complications are leaders in the structure of mortality of patients after resection of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). In recent years more data have been obtained on the possibility of performing invasive coronary angiography (CAG) as a method of preoperative assessment of the condition of the coronary arteries.

AIM: To assess the tactics of routine CAG and preventive revascularization of the myocardium in comparison with non-invasive functional tests in patients without clinical manifestations of coronary heart disease (CHD) from positions of the hospital outcomes of AAA resections.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study included 205 patients without clinical and instrumental signs of CHD who underwent AAA resection at National Medical Research Center of Surgery named after A. Vishnevsky in 2001–2021. Patients of the first group (n = 55) underwent CAG before AAA resection and, if significant stenosis of coronary arteries was detected, revascularization of the myocardium was performed. In patients of the second group (n = 71), only functional cardiac tests were conducted before the operation. Patients of the third group were operated on without additional evaluation of cardiac status.

RESULTS: In 30.9% of patients of the first group, significant coronary lesions were detected, in 29.5% of them with the involvement of the left main coronary artery. This required 10 percutaneous coronary interventions and 5 coronary artery bypass surgeries, which made 27.0% of patients in this group. No cases of myocardial infarction were recorded in this group. In the second and third groups, one case of myocardial infarction in each group was recorded (p = 0.688). There was no significant difference in the postoperative mortality in all the groups (1.8%; 4.2%; 2.5%, respectively; p = 0.704). To this end, maximally invasive diagnostic tactics increased the average waiting time for AAA resection: 52.2 ± 6.0 days in groups without coronary angiography and myocardial revascularization versus 99.2 ± 13.0 days in the first group.

CONCLUSION: In a cohort of patients without anamnestic and clinical manifestations of coronary artery disease, the tactics of routine coronary angiography followed by prophylactic myocardial revascularization did not improve the short-term results of AAA resection, while the waiting period for intervention on the abdominal aorta increased. Preoperative tactics with functional cardiac tests also did not affect the treatment results.

Keywords

abdominal aorta aneurysm / cardiac risks / coronary angiography / coronary heart disease / stenosis / coronary artery / myocardial ischemia

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