An analysis of 10 trials involving more than 10,000 patients with non-acute heart disease compared outcomes for three treatment strategies: optimal medical therapy (OMT), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with OMT, and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with OMT.
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September 11, 2025
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June 26, 2025
This video showcases an open harvesting technique for the radial artery.
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The authors present a successful robotic beating-heart totally endoscopic coronary bypass procedure involving a single vessel, specifically, the left internal mammary artery to the left anterior descending artery in a 69-year-old patient with left anterior descending artery disease.