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

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 than one third of participants in cardiac trials, yet they make up roughly half of annual cardiac deaths in the US annually. Researchers aim to alter this trend by creating a connected but separate trial for women to determine whether multiarterial grafts are better than single arterial grafts in CABG.