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View Post: Trial can't prove PCI to be noninferior to CABG for diabetics with ...
3 Dec 2009
'The one-year results of the CARDia trial,' they write, 'did not demonstrate the noninferiority of PCI versus coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for revascularization of diabetic patients. However, the results suggest that there ...
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View Blog: Patients who received telephone-delivered collaborative care for treatment of depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery reported greater improvement in measures of quality of life, physical functioning and mood than patients

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View Post: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery provides better survival in ...
23 Nov 2009 by Chiu, F.-C., Chang, S.-N., Lin, J.-W.,...  
The propensity analysis identified 44 patients in the PCI only group (35 men, 65 ± 2 years, and 9 women, 75 ± 4 years) and the other 44 patients in the PCI+CABG group (31 men, 67 ± 2 years, and 13 women, 71 ± 2 years) who had comparable ...
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View Post: REVASCULARISATION IN DIABETICS WITH 3VD-CAD ; PCI OR CABG
29 Nov 2009 by hmatter  
Which is the prefered strategy for diabetics who require revascularisation, PCI or CABG ? Eversince the advent of balloon angioplasty, all the clinical trial data ( right from BARI, in the beginning ) have always favoured CABG. ...
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View Post: Long-term follow-up after minimal invasive direct coronary artery ...
17 Nov 2009 by Kofidis, T., Emmert, MY, Paeschke, HG,...  
We provide a multi-factorial long-term follow-up following minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCABG) to evaluate the long-term efficacy. From 1996 onwards, 390 patients underwent MIDCABG (follow-up: 30.0±11.2 ...
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