Associations Between Adding a Radial Artery Graft to Single and Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafts and Outcomes | Zendy

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Associations Between Adding a Radial Artery Graft to Single and Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafts and Outcomes

Author(s) -

David P. Taggart,

Douglas G. Altman,

Marcus Flather,

Stephen Gerry,

Alastair Gray,

Belinda Lees,

Umberto Benedetto

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.117.027659

Subject(s) - medicine , internal thoracic artery , radial artery , revascularization , propensity score matching , cardiology , myocardial infarction , surgery , confidence interval , hazard ratio , coronary artery disease , artery , proportional hazards model , coronary artery bypass surgery , clinical endpoint , randomized controlled trial , bypass grafting

Whether the use of the radial artery (RA) can improve clinical outcomes in coronary artery bypass graft surgery remains unclear. The ART (Arterial Revascularization Trial) was designed to compare survival after bilateral internal thoracic artery (BITA) over single left internal thoracic artery (SITA). In the ART, a large proportion of patients (≈20%) also received an RA graft instead of a saphenous vein graft (SVG). We aimed to investigate the associations between using the RA instead of an SVG to supplement SITA or BITA grafts and outcomes by performing a post hoc analysis of the ART.

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