CABG Versus PCI

Diabetes Pci or Cabg: Pros & Cons

Diabetes is challenging for revascularization due to specific disease related high risk clinical and angiographic features. In the early 90’s CABG was the preferred modality of revascularization in diabetics with multivessel disease due to high rate restenosis rates with percutaneous angioplasty alone (POBA) and bare metal stents (BMS). With advent of drug eluting stents (DES) the role of PCI i...

PCI or CABG, That is the Question!

Long-Term Mortality of 306,868 Patients with Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease: CABG versus PCI

BACKGROUND Several randomized controlled trials (RCT) have reported no difference in long-term mortality between coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The purpose of this pooled observational analysis was to compare recent retrospective studies examining long-term survival of patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease undergoing CABG and PC...

PCI Versus CABG in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes and Multivessel Disease.

BACKGROUND It is unknown if coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may offer a survival benefit in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in need of multivessel revascularization. OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine if patients with T1D and multivessel disease may benefit from CABG compared with PCI. METHODS In an observational cohort study, th...

Causes of Death Following PCI Versus CABG in Complex CAD: 5-Year Follow-Up of SYNTAX.

BACKGROUND There are no data available on specific causes of death from randomized trials that have compared coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate specific causes of death, and its predictors, after revascularization for complex coronary disease in patients. METHODS An independent Clinica...