Antonino S Rubino, Giuseppe Gatti, Daniel Reichart, Tuomas Tauriainen, Marisa De Feo, Francesco Onorati, Aniello Pappalardo, Sidney Chocron, Helmut Gulbins, Magnus Dalén, Peter Svenarud, Giuseppe Faggian, Ilaria Franzese, Giuseppe Santarpino, Theodor Fischlein, Daniele Maselli, Saverio Nardella, Riccardo Gherli, Aamer Ahmed, Francesco Santini, Antonio Salsano, Francesco Nicolini, Marco Zanobini, Matteo Saccocci, Vito G Ruggieri, Karl Bounader, Carmelo Mignosa, Paola D'Errigo, Stefano Rosato, Juhani Airaksinen, Andrea Perrotti, Fausto Biancari
BACKGROUND: Bilateral internal mammary artery (BIMA) grafting is increasingly used in the elderly without evidence of its risks or benefits compared to single internal mammary artery (SIMA) grafting. METHODS: 2899 patients aged 70 years or older (855 underwent BIMA grafting, 29.5%) operated on from January 2015 to December 2016 and included in the prospective multicenter E-CABG study were considered in this analysis. RESULTS: One-to-one propensity matching resulted in 804 pairs with similar preoperative risk profile...
February 1, 2018: Annals of Thoracic Surgery