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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:1651-1652. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.10.087
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Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenting Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Hisato Takagi, MD, PhD, Hideaki Manabe, MD, Norikazu Kawai, MD, Shin-nosuke Goto, MD, Takuya Umemoto, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Medical Center, 762-1 Nagasawa, Shimizu-cho, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, 411-8611 Japan

(Email: kfgth973@ybb.ne.jp).

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In their observational study, Wu and colleagues [1] found that coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) was associated with a significantly lower risk of 2-year mortality relative to percutaneous coronary intervention with stents (PCI-S) (hazard ratio, 0.32; 95% confidence interval, 0.14 to 0.71; p = 0.005) in 135 matched pairs (on baseline characteristics identified by a propensity model as predictors of type of procedure received) of patients with unprotected left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease. Our recent meta-analysis [2] of five comparative studies (not including the study by Wu and colleagues [1]), however, demonstrated no significant difference in 1-year to 3-year mortality between CABG and PCI-S for unprotected LMCA . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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