Decision-making between percutaneous and surgical revascularization in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) is challenging. Current guidelines recommend surgery as the preferred ...

NEWARK, DE — CABG surgery is more expensive than PCI for the nonemergent treatment of multivessel disease, but given the better outcomes with surgery, CABG provides "reasonable value" based on ...

BOSTON, MA — A surgical revascularization strategy that uses multiple arterial coronary artery bypass grafts (MA-CABG) in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease results in lower mortality ...

CABG is a type of open-heart surgery specialists use to treat a heart attack when arteries that bring blood to the heart narrow or get blocked. Cholesterol and fatty deposits known as plaque build up ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CABG/surgical AVR was tied to lower risk for stroke, MI, valve reintervention or death vs. PCI/TAVR for aortic ...

CHICAGO, IL—It took 10 years, but long-term follow-up from the STICH trial now demonstrates a survival benefit for surgical revascularization on top of best medical therapy as compared with medical ...

Early coronary bypass graft (CABG) -- less than 5 days after ticagrelor (Brilinta) cessation -- proved noninferior to waiting up to 7 days after stopping the antiplatelet in terms of severe or massive ...

In patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a novel analysis evaluating surgeon preference for multi- versus single-arterial grafting may help explain the differing results between ...

A large pooled analysis of randomized data is providing some much-needed long-term mortality numbers in the long-running CABG versus PCI debate. The data show that while CABG holds a long-term ...

Women are significantly less likely than men to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using guideline-recommended approaches, which may result in worse outcomes after surgery, according to a ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting is associated with a higher risk for all-cause and in-hospital mortality compared with percutaneous coronary intervention in patients on dialysis. A recent ...