CABG is a type of open-heart surgery specialists use to treat a heart attack when arteries that bring blood to the heart narrow or get blocked. Cholesterol and fatty deposits known as plaque build up ...

For women with severe CAD, percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with increased risk for MACCE and all-cause mortality compared with CABG.

CABG surgery is an effective way to improve symptoms and prognosis in patients with advanced coronary atherosclerotic disease. Despite multiple improvements in surgical technique and patient treatment ...

Kaplan-Meier 5-year estimates of major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular events (MACCE) were 28% for PCI and 19% for CABG, yielding a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.58, which exceeded the prespecified limit ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CABG/surgical AVR was tied to lower risk for stroke, MI, valve reintervention or death vs. PCI/TAVR for aortic ...

In patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a novel analysis evaluating surgeon preference for multi- versus single-arterial grafting may help explain the differing results between ...

CABG surgery is the standard treatment for patients with left main coronary artery disease (CAD), but randomized trials have shown that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting ...

While the academic world has, at times, been embroiled in rancorous debates about the merits of one approach over the other in different settings, such as left main CAD or stable multivessel disease, ...

Lifestyle modifications and rapid urbanization has led to an epidemic of cardiac disease in India. The incidence of coronary artery disease ranges from 14.8 to 65.4 per 1000 population. Cardiac ...

Patients with acute coronary syndromes who have been taking the antiplatelet medication, ticagrelor, and who need coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) may be able to safely have the procedure earlier ...

In the international SYNTAX trial, 1800 patients with three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease were randomly assigned to either revascularization with coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) ...

CHICAGO, IL—Five years down the line, patients with three-vessel disease who underwent fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided PCI have clinical outcomes on par with patients who were treated initially ...