Pre-operative aspirin not linked with improved outcomes during CABG
1. High-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery who were randomized to receive 100mg aspirin on the day ...
Tag: CABG
2 Minute Medicine Rewind November 2 – November 8, 2015
Isosorbide Mononitrate in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Few medications have been shown to improve mortality or quality of ...
No benefit of adding mitral valve repair to CABG
1. In patients with multivessel coronary artery disease and moderate mitral regurgitation, there was no significant benefit on left ventricular ...
No benefit with preoperative beta-blocker use in coronary bypass surgery
1. In a retrospective analysis of patients who had never had a myocardial infarction, preoperative b-blocker use was not associated ...
The RIVAL trial: Radial vs femoral artery access for PCI [Classics Series]
Image: PD 1. The composite outcome of death, myocardial infarction, stroke, and non-CABG-related major bleeding did not differ between radial ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind November 18-24, 2013
Image: PD In this section, we will highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the ...
Use of cardiac stem cell factors linked with positive coronary bypass outcome
Image: PD 1. High circulating IGF-1 and several cardiac stem cell (CSC) markers correlate with positive ventricular remodeling after revascularization. ...
In diabetics, coronary bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention similar
Image: PD 1. In patients with diabetes mellitus, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery yielded lower rates of death and ...
Radial artery harvest comparable to saphenous vein harvest for cardiac bypass
Image: PD 1. Although operative site pain was higher at three months in patients following radial artery harvest compared to ...
The PRECOMBAT trial: PCI vs CABG in left main coronary artery stenosis [Classics Series]
1. In patients with left main coronary artery stenosis, angioplasty with sirolimus-eluting stents was noninferior to coronary artery bypass grafting ...