The investigators of this study compared survival of bare metal stent percutaneous coronary intervention (BMS-PCI) versus drug-eluting stent PCI (DES-PCI) versus single artery CABG (SA-CABG) versus multiarterial CABG (MA-CABG) in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. They used propensity-matching and Cox regression techniques in more than 8000 patients from 1 institution. The authors found that survival after DES-PCI was higher than after BMS-PCI. Long-term survival after DES-PCI was similar to SA-CABG. However, when compared to MA-CABG, the DES-PCI group showed worse survival at 5 years (86.3% versus 95.6%) and at 9 years (82.8% versus 89.8%; HR 0.45, p
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CABG Versus PCI: Greater Benefit in Long-Term Outcomes With Multiple Arterial Bypass Grafting
Submitted by: Ruben Osnabrugge
Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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Author(s): Robert H. Habib; Kamellia R. Dimitrova; Sanaa A. Badour; Maroun B. Yammine; Abdul-Karim M. El-Hage-Sleiman; Darryl M. Hoffman; Charles M. Geller; Thomas A. Schwann; Robert F. Tranbaugh
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What about diabetic patients?I believe that DES-PCI Group may Show worse survival in DM patients.
use of internal thoracic artery as a conduit for grafting is basically a treatment, rather a palliation.