Between April 1980 and March 1990 we performed eight surgical angioplasties of the left main coronary artery and/or its ostium and of the right coronary artery's ostium. There was no early mortality, and these patients were followed by a period of one to 109 months (medium of 43.2 months). We have observed improvement in the clinical symptoms and functional class. A new angiocardiography was performed in six patients, for angioplasty control and left ventricular (L V) function evaluation if there was an adequate anatomy on the surgical corrected site and an improvement on the L V contractility and ejection fraction. There were two late deaths. One patient died 39 of postoperative months in congestive heart failure and with angor pectoris, the other one in a car accident 109 months after the surgical correction. These results lead us to conclude that surgical angioplasty for ostium, right or left main coronary artery due to obstructive lesions, isolated or associated with other defects, is an optimal procedure to coronary revascularization.
myocardial revascularization