Total Arterial Revascularization: Achievable and Prognostically Effective. A Multicenter Analysis

The authors analyzed an audited collaborative multicenter database in Australia of over 34,000 consecutive patients who underwent CABG from 2001 to 2012,  and they compared outcomes in those undergoing total arterial revascularization (TAR) vs. those that did not.  In their propensity-matched cohort, the operative mortality was 0.9% for TAR patients and 1.2% for non-TAR patients (p