Coronary Disease - Surgery

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First-Ever Cardiac Surgery Trial in Women Poised to Launch: ROMA-Women

April 21, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

ROMA-Women is an offshoot of the original ROMA CABG trial designed to address the lack of women in surgical studies, and therefore the lack of guideline-directed surgical care for women patients. Women make up less...

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Spontaneous Myocardial Infarction After Left Main Revascularization: The EXCEL Trial

March 26, 2026 | Vincent SierSilver Contributor

In this pre-specified analysis of the EXCEL trial, 1,882 patients with left main disease underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=952) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) (n=930). At five years,...

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Multiarterial vs Single-Arterial Coronary Surgery: Ten-Year Follow-Up of One Million Patients

September 19, 2024 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This study examined the long-term survival of patients undergoing multiarterial grafting (MAG) versus single-arterial grafting (SAG) in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). After analyzing data from more than one million...

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Routine Extubation in the Operating Room After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass

February 8, 2024 | Mateo Marin-Cuartas

The benefits of early extubation in the operating room (OR) following cardiac surgery remain unproven. In this study, the authors evaluated perioperative outcomes after extubation in the OR versus extubation...

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Robotic-Assisted vs. Traditional Full-Sternotomy Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Procedures: A Propensity-Matched Analysis of Hospital Costs

December 7, 2023 | Jason Trevis

In this study, the authors performed a propensity matched analysis of hospital costs for robotic-assisted CABG vs. conventional CABG. 1,173 patients were included in the analysis from 2018 until 2021....

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2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularization

January 16, 2019 | Claire Vernon

The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the European Society of Cardiology have, for the third time, brought together cardiac surgeons and cardiologists to draft a document on the treatment...

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Cardiac Surgery in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease: A Retrospective Analysis of a High-Risk Cohort

January 14, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Schroeter and colleagues sought to determine the influence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) on perioperative outcomes after cardiac surgery, given the increasing incidence of cardiac surgery in patients with PD. They...

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Is Nocturnal Extubation After Cardiac Surgery Associated With Worse Outcomes?

January 9, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Diwan and colleagues retrospectively compared daytime to nighttime extubation for patients after cardiac surgery, considering outcomes for patients who were extubated early and patients who had longer intubation times. While...

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SYNTAX Score in Patients With Diabetes Undergoing Coronary Revascularization in the FREEDOM Trial

December 26, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A randomized controlled trial coauthored by the Editor-in-Chief of the host periodical on the risk management of multivessel diabetic coronopathy.

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Transient Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery Does Not Independently Affect Postoperative Outcomes

December 24, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Borracci and colleagues evaluated the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in 418 patients during in-hospital care after cardiac surgery. The authors found AKI in 17.5 % of patients when...

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Hybrid Revascularization: Moving Beyond the Status Quo

December 20, 2018 | John Puskas…

Filmed at the 2018 STS Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, John Puskas of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, New York, USA, moderates...

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A Meta‐Analysis of ≥5‐Year Mortality in Randomized Controlled Trials of Off‐Pump Versus On‐Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

December 11, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Takagi and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of eight randomized controlled trials comparing on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). They evaluated only trials with follow-up periods of five years...

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Outcomes Following Surgical Revascularization With Single Versus Bilateral Internal Thoracic Arterial Grafts in Patients With Left Main Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Insights From the EXCEL Trial

November 30, 2018 | Benjamin Bidstrup

The EXCEL is one of several prospective studies that examine the use of single versus bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafts for myocardial revascularization (in this case, compared with percutaneous...

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