Table 1.
Summary of the reported cases of conservative management of chylothorax after coronary artery bypass grafting.
| Author | Procedure | Age/Gender | LIMA/RIMA | Site | Surgery to diagnosis duration (days) | Management |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weber et al., 1981 [8] | CABG | 55 y/M | LIMA | L & M | 2 | Chet tube drainage, MCTG, drain removed on 12th POD, discharged home on 14th POD |
| Zakhour et al., 1981 [9] | CABG | 73 y/M | LIMA | L | 90 | Chest tube drainage, MCTG, drainage resolved on 21st day |
| Zakhour et al., 1981 [9] | CABG | 59 y/M | N | L & M | 2 | Chest tube drainage, MCTG, resolved after 5 days |
| Kshetry et al., 1982 [10] | CABG | 51 y/M | N | L | 60 | Chest tube drainage, resolved after 4 days |
| Teba et al., 1985 [11] | CABG +MVR | 51 y/F | N | L | 7 | Chest tube drainage, resolved after 17 days |
| Davies et al., 1994 [12] | CABG | 48 y/M | LIMA | L | 21 | Chest tube drainage, MCTG, resolved after 4 weeks |
| Smith et al., 1994 [13] | CABG | 60 y/M | LIMA | L | 14 | Chest tube drainage, MCTG, resolved after 15 days |
| Smith et al., 1994 [13] | CABG | 47 y/M | LIMA | L | 7 | Chest tube drainage, MCTG, resolved after 14 days |
| Zaidenstein et al., 1996 [5] | CABG | 70 y/F | LIMA | L | 42 | Chest tube drainage, low fat diet, resolved after 16 days |
| Mohanty et al., 1998 [14] | CABG | 56 y/M | LIMA | L | 8 | Chest tube drainage, MCTG, resolved after 22 days, the sternum was rewired at day 9 |
| Sharpe et al., 1999 [15] | CABG | 63 y/F | N | L & M | 11 | Chest tube drainage, TPN, Pigtail drainage initially and then pericardial window later-on for chylopericardium initially, resolved after 14 days |
| Priebe et al., 1999 [16] | CABG | 75 y/F | LIMA | L & M | 30 | Chest tube drainage, discharged after 3 days as the chest X-Ray was clear, readmitted 2 weeks later with relapse of chylothorax, low fat diet, pleurodesis through chest tube, resolved after 2 months |
| Brancaccio et al., 2001 [17] | CABG | 64 y/M | LIMA | L | 6 | Chest tube drainage, resolved after 11 days |
| Fahimi et al., 2001 [18] | CABG | 51 y/M | LIMA | L | UK | Chest tube drainage, MCTG |
| Abid et al., 2003 [19] | CABG | 58 y/M | LIMA | L | 3 | Chest tube drainage, MCTG, Talc pleurodesis after 8 days, resolved after one week |
| Halldorsson et al., 2006 [20] | CABG | 47 y/F | N | R | 10 | Chest tube drainage, resolved after 10 days |
| karimi et al., 2010 [21] | CABG | 53 y/M | LIMA | L | 2 | Chest tube drainage, low fat diet, resolved after 27 days |
| Mandak et al., 2011 [22] | CABG | 76 y/F | LIMA | L | 9 | Chest tube drainage, NPO, TPN, resolved after 16 days |
| Sabzi et al., 2017 [23] | CABG | 43 y/M | LIMA | L | 0 | Chest tube drainage, low fat diet, resolved after 10 days |