Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Versus Drug-Eluting Stents for Patients With Isolated Proximal Left Anterior Descending Disease
Hannan EL, Zhong Y, Walford G, Holmes DR, Venditti FJ, Berger PB, Jacobs AK, Stamato NJ, Curtis JP, Sharma S, King SB. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Versus Drug-Eluting Stents for Patients With Isolated Proximal Left Anterior Descending Disease. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2014, 64: 2717-2726. PMID: 25541122, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.09.074.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDrug-eluting stentsPercutaneous coronary interventionRepeat revascularization rateMyocardial infarctionRevascularization ratesCABG patientsAnterior descending (LAD) coronary artery diseaseCoronary artery bypass graft surgeryLower repeat revascularization ratesArtery bypass graft surgeryCox proportional hazards modelBypass graft surgeryCoronary artery diseaseKaplan-Meier estimatesProportional hazards modelAdministrative dataIsolated ProximalCABG surgeryGraft surgeryCoronary interventionArtery diseaseVital statistics dataCurrent guidelinesCABGOutcome measures