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Zagazig university medical journa
Zagazig university medical journa
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Despite the reduction in perioperative mortality observed over the past two decades, the risk of
performing cardiac surgery in patients with coronary artery disease and severe left ventricular
dysfunction remains high, These risks have led to the appearance of several ways to provide
better outcomes. These ways are either mechanical like intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) or using
medical inotropic drugs either adrenergic (epinephrine, norepinephrine &dobutamine) or nonadrenergic (levosimendan) drugs. It is indicated for the short-term treatment of acutely
Patients and Method
Patients had collected, evaluated thorough the preoperative, intra-operative, postoperative period
withpoor left ventricular function ejection less than or equal to 40%. Cases had allocated into
two gatherings of 50 cases.cases had admitted to the cardiovascular intensive care unit (ICU) 24h
before surgery, a peri-operative dose of continuous levosimendan infusion over a total of 24h in
the other gathering, cases will be submitted to conventional inotropes only (non levosimendan
gathering) according to their medical requirements.
Objective: the aim of this study had to detect the outcome of clinical use of preioperative
Levosemindan for cases undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with poor left ventricular
function, also comparing it with the conventional medications as catecholamines.
Results
Gathering A included 38 cases received levosimendan as perioperative cardiac support
Gathering B included 40 cases received conventional cardiac support. A critical difference
between both gatherings regarding total operative time, total bypass time, failure of weaning
from cardiobypass (C.P.B), the use of intraoperative I.A.B.P.. There had a statistically critical
difference between both gatherings in which C.V.P had lower in levosimendan .There had
statistically critical difference regarding base critical in the levosimendan gathering. with high
statistical difference for medical support, no difference for support .
Conclusion
the use of levosimendan perioperatively decrease the operative time, cross clamp time, facilitate
the weaning from cardiomachine decrease the need of conventional inotropic support, decrease
the duration of postoperative ventilation, improve the tissue perfusion, cardiac output parameters,
length of I.C.U, hospital stay with decreasing early postoperative mortality, it had high degree of
drug safety, tolerability
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