Characteristics of patients
All enrolled patient’s age, gender, medical history, surgery and data
related to surgey were collected. A total of 436 patients were included
in this study with a mean age of 62.8±13.8 and 61.2±16.8 and comprising
51(53.13%) and 178(52.35%) men in each group. The baseline
characteristics of patients with delirium occurred and without delirium
were depicted in Table 2. In terms of preoperative symptoms and
morbidity, no difference was observed except for the higher incidence of
heart failure (P=0.043) in the Delirium group.
Among the surgical procedures, all patients were underwent isolated
OPCABG with the help of mechanical stabilization
devices, there were no difference
in number of distal anastamoses (P=0.068), rate of ITA use (P=0.091) ,
while patients in Delirium group had a significant higher rate use of
radial artery (RA) (P=0.021).