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A Comparison in Short Term Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery between Post-COVID and Non-COVID Patients 🚨So AGAIN, Post-COVID patients after bypass surgery suffer nearly DOUBLE the arrhythmias (48% vs 26%) and kidney injury (38% vs 16%), plus days longer on the ventilator and in ICU. Prior COVID is not ‘just a cold’ for cardiac surgery!🫀 ➡️An interesting small comparative observational study(July 2024 to June 2025, 100 patients with CAD were included, half of them had no previous history of COVID-19 infection (group A), other half had history of covid-19 infection (group B)). ➡️Key findings: - Post-COVID patients had significantly higher rates of cardiac arrhythmias (48% vs. 26%, p=0.023) and acute kidney injury (38% vs. 16%, p=0.013). - They also required longer mechanical ventilation (11.8 ± 5.2 vs. 7.1 ± 4.7 hours), ICU stay (6.9 ± 2.2 vs. 4.9 ± 2.4 days), and postoperative hospital stay (10.6 ± 3.3 vs. 8.4 ± 1.8 days) , all p<0.001. - Re-exploration (10% vs. 2%) and mortality (8% vs. 2%) were numerically higher but not statistically significant. ➡️Post-COVID patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) may be prone to experience worse short-term outcomes and face longer recovery periods! ‼️So, prior COVID-19 leaves a measurable residual burden: even after recovery, these patients face substantially higher rates of serious postoperative complications and markedly prolonged recovery after CABG. The physiological impact is clearly not trivial. ‼️IMPORTANT: Results are consistent with the broader literature on residual COVID-related vulnerability in the perioperative cardiac surgery setting, especially regarding recovery duration and certain organ-specific complications! #AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections banglajol.info/index.php/MED…