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Multiple Versus Single Arterial Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery for Multivessel Disease

Monday, September 2, 2019

Submitted by

Edward Savage

Source

Source Name: Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Source URL: http://www.onlinejacc.org/content/74/10/1275?utm_medium=email_newsletter&utm_sou…

Author(s)

Zaza Samadashvili, Thoralf M. Sundt III, Andrew Wechsler, Joanna Chikwe, David H. Adams, Craig R. Smith, Desmond Jordan, Leonard Girardi, Stephen J. Lahey, Jeffrey P. Gold, Mohammed H. Ashraf, Edward L. Hannan

The authors reviewed the New York State database. Patients with single arterial grafts were compared to those with multiple arterial grafts. Propensity matching was performed based on 38 baseline characteristics. Twenty percent had multiple arterial grafting. There was no difference at one year but at seven years the multiple arterial graft group had lower mortality and a lower repeat revascularization rate.