Research Article
Size of Left Cardiac Chambers Correlates with Cerebral Microembolic Load in Open Heart Operations
Table 1
Patient characteristics.
| | Number of patients | 30 |
| | Male sex (/%) | 15/50 | | Age (years) | 44.3 14.0 | | Height, cm | 170.8 8.3 | | Body weight, kg | 81.4 11.6 | | Body surface area, | 1.82 0.19 | | History of hypertension(/%) | 18/60 | | History of diabetes (/%) | 1/10 | | Previous myocardial infarction (/%) | 3/10 | | History of atrium fibrillation (/%) | 15/50 | | NYHA Class III and IV (/%) | 12/40 | | Left atrium diameter, mm | 44.9 10.7 | | Left ventricular end-systolic diameter, mm | 36.2 9.8 | | Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, mm | 55.5 11.9 | | Mitral valve surgery (/%) | 17/57 | | Aortic valve surgery (/%) | 9/30 | | Aortic and mitral valve surgery (/%) | 4/13 | | CABG surgery (/%) | 4/13 | | Coronary artery bypass grafts (number) | 3.1 0.5 | | Cardio-pulmonary bypass time (min) | 127.5 59.2 | | Aortic cross-clamp time (min) | 74.6 39.2 | | Microembolic load (number) | 914.6 423.1 |
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Data given as means SD, or as number of patients/% of patients. CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; NYHA: New York Heart Association.
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