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Background Surgical ventricular reconstruction is a specific procedure designed to reduce left ventricular volume in patients with heart failure caused by coronary artery disease. We conducted a trial to address the question of whether surgical ventricular reconstruction added to coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) would decrease the rate of death or hospitalization for cardiac causes, as compared with CABG alone.
Methods Between September 2002 and January 2006, a total of 1000 patients with an ejection fraction of 35% or less, coronary artery disease that was amenable to CABG, and dominant anterior left ventricular dysfunction that was amenable to surgical ventricular reconstruction were randomly assigned to undergo either CABG alone (499 patients) or CABG with surgical ventricular reconstruction (501 patients). The primary outcome was a composite of death from any cause and hospitalization for cardiac causes. The median follow-up was 48 months.
Results Surgical ventricular reconstruction reduced the end-systolic volume index by 19%, as compared with a reduction of 6% with CABG alone. Cardiac symptoms and exercise tolerance improved from baseline to a similar degree in the two study groups. However, no significant difference was observed in the primary outcome, which occurred in 292 patients (59%) who were assigned to undergo CABG alone and in 289 patients (58%) who were assigned to undergo CABG with surgical ventricular reconstruction (hazard ratio for the combined approach, 0.99; 95% confidence interval, 0.84 to 1.17; P=0.90).
Conclusions Adding surgical ventricular reconstruction to CABG reduced the left ventricular volume, as compared with CABG alone. However, this anatomical change was not associated with a greater improvement in symptoms or exercise tolerance or with a reduction in the rate of death or hospitalization for cardiac causes. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00023595
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From the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (R.H.J., E.J.V., C.M.O., K.L.L.); the Montefiore Medical Center–Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (R.E.M.); the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (G.S., P.D.-N.); the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (J.K.O.); the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville (J.A.H.); San Donato Hospital, Milan (L.M.); National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland (Z.S.); and Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, University of Montreal, Montreal (J.-L.R.).
This article (10.1056/NEJMoa0900559) was published at NEJM.org on March 29, 2009.
Address reprint requests to Dr. Jones at P.O. Box 2986, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, or at jones060{at}mc.duke.edu.
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