Results of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Non-dialysis Patients with Renal Dysfunction

Abstract

Preoperative renal dysfunction is a major risk factor in heart surgery-. On the one hand, it is common knowledge that results of heart surgery in dialysis patients, in particular, are extremely poor, but on the other hand, there are only a few reports that focused on non-dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Japan . We report the outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) performed on non-dialysis patients with renal dysfunction at our hospital. II. Materials and methods