ABSTRACT
Objective - To assess the results observed during the early prospective period in patients who had the posterior coronary arteries revascularized without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), in regard to the following parameters: age, sex, bypass grafts types, morbitidy and mortality. Methods - From January 1995 to June 1998, 673 patients underwent myocardial revascularization (MR). Of this total, 607 (90.20 per cent) MR procedures were performed without CPB. The posterior coronary arteries (PCA) were revascularized in 298 (44.27 per cent) patients, 280 (93.95 per cent) years (mean, 61 years). The male gender predominated, with 198 men (70.7 per cent). The revascularization of the posterior coronary arteries had the following distribution: diagonalis artery (31 patients, 10 per cent); marginal branches of the circumflex artery (243 patients, 78.7 per cent); posterior ventricular artery (4 patients, 1.3 per cent); and posterior descending artery (31 patients, 10 per cent). Results - Procedure-related complications without death occurred in 7 cases, giving a morbidity of 2.5 per cent. There were 11 deaths in the early posterative period (mortality of 3.9 per cent). Conclusion - Similarly to the anterior coronary arteries, the posterior coronary arteries may benefit from myocardial revascularization without CPB.