Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

In a meta-analysis of 14 randomized trials of patients with stable ischemic heart disease, revascularization did not reduce risk for mortality but did improve certain other outcomes, researchers reported at the virtual PCR e-Course.

Among patients who underwent CABG, single arterial grafts and multiple arterial grafts were similar for all-cause mortality, CV mortality, MI and major bleeding, researchers reported.

A novel method that incorporates information from cardiac CT and cardiac MRI aided cardiologists in diagnosing CAD, according to a study published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.

Long-term outcomes of PCI with a sirolimus-eluting stent vs. CABG for unprotected left main CAD.

Myocardial flow reserve from PET imaging in patients with ischemic HF may identify those with a greater outcome benefit from CABG vs. PCI, according to data presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.

Patients with severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction and CAD who underwent PCI had higher rates of MACE and mortality compared with those who underwent CABG, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.

Ten-year extended follow-up of the PRECOMBAT trial demonstrates no difference in the incidence of major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular events regardless of whether patients with unprotected left main CAD were treated with PCI with a first-generation drug-eluting stent or CABG.

Among patients who underwent PCI or CABG between 2003 and 2016, risk-adjusted mortality decreased in the CABG population but not in the PCI population over time, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery has withdrawn its support for the left main disease recommendations of the 2018 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery/European Society of Cardiology Clinical Guidelines for Myocardial Revascularization, but a portion of the association’s explanation has drawn criticism from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

SAN FRANCISCO — Among patients with three-vessel disease who underwent PCI, achievement of a quantitative flow ratio of at least 0.91 in all treated vessels was associated with improved vessel-related outcomes, according to findings presented at TCT 2019.