Eishan Ashwat, James A Brown, Sarah Yousef, Danial Ahmad, Yisi Wang, Floyd W Thoma, Derek Serna-Gallegos, Pyongsoo Yoon, David West, Danny Chu, Johannes Bonatti, David Kaczorowski, Ibrahim Sultan
OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical outcomes of radial artery (RA) grafts during CABG to those of right internal mammary artery (RIMA) grafts. METHODS: This was a retrospective, single-institution cohort study of isolated CABG with multiple grafts between 2010-2022. To balance graft cohorts, propensity score matching (PSM) was performed using a 1:1 match ratio. Long-term postoperative survival was compared among RA and RIMA groups. Similarly, major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) were compared among both cohorts, with MACCE comprising death, myocardial infarction (MI), coronary revascularization, and stroke...
January 20, 2024: American Heart Journal