welcomes you to the new, improved website!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 CABG patients, researchers found that MAG led to significantly better survival rates at 10 years, with both unadjusted and adjusted hazard ratios. MAG was also found to have an overall survival advantage over SAG in all subgroups, including stable coronary disease, acute coronary syndrome, and acute infarction. Superior survival with SAG was only associated with patients who have a body mass index ≥40 kg/m 2.
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Multiarterial vs Single-Arterial Coronary Surgery: Ten-Year Follow-Up of One Million Patients
Submitted by: Joel Dunning
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Author(s): Joseph F. Sabik, III, J. Hunter Mehaffey, Vinay Badhwar, Marc Ruel, Patrick O. Myers, Sigrid Sandner, Faisal Bakaeen, John Puskas, David Taggart, Thomas Schwann, Joanna Chikwe, Thomas E. MacGillivray, Abel Kho, Robert H. Habib
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I think after this study, there is no excuse not to use multiple arterial grafts in every patient except morbid obese ones