1985
Comparison of preoperative, operative and postoperative variables in asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients to severely symptomatic patients three years after coronary artery bypass grafting: analysis of 423 patients
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The American Journal of Cardiology , Volume 55 p. 362- 366
During a follow-up period of 3 years, among a consecutive series of 423 patients who gave informed consent for recatheterization both 1 and 3 years after coronary artery bypass grafting, the incidence of severely symptomatic patients with New York Heart Association class III or IV was 19% (79 of 423). The predictive value of approximately 80 clinical, angiographic and perioperative variables was too low to be of clinical value. Adverse clinical outcome was associated with a high closure rate of the grafts. Forty-six percent of the patients could not undergo reoperation because of unsuitable coronary anatomy. With intensive medical therapy half of these patients improved to functional class I or II, while of those patients who were reoperable 32% improved to class I or II with intensive pharmacologic treatment instead of reoperation. The nonresponders underwent reoperation, which resulted in improvement of symptoms to functional class I or II in most (83%).
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Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
de Feyter, P.J, Serruys, P.W.J.C, Brower, R.W, van den Brand, M.J.B.M, ten Katen, H.J, Hugenholtz, P.G, & Bos, E. (1985). Comparison of preoperative, operative and postoperative variables in asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic patients to severely symptomatic patients three years after coronary artery bypass grafting: analysis of 423 patients. The American Journal of Cardiology, 55, 362–366. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/4144
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