Ann Thorac Surg 1995;59:287
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DR ROBERT A. GUYTON (Atlanta, GA): Doctor Boylan, that was a beautifully presented paper.
Doctor Joe Craver put together our experience over this same decade several years ago. In this interval we also had some 10,000 patients undergoing angioplasty. Our failure rate, or the number of patients who arrived in the operating room, was 5.9%, which gave us more than twice as many patients to analyze as the Cleveland Clinic group. When the surgeons add up the number of patients arriving in the operating room it somehow seems to be a little different than the number of patients that the cardiologists send out of the catheterization laboratory after a failed angioplasty.
Eighty-two percent of these patients had ischemia when they arrived in the operating room; 18% did not. The mortality for the patients with ischemia was 6%; for patients without ischemia it was 1%. Probably because we had more patients and because we had more patients in the early 1980s who had single-vessel disease with good ventricles, we did see a significant difference as far as death . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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