A Propensity Score Matched Analysis of Asymptomatic Patients Undergoing Carotid Endarterectomy (CEA) vs Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) vs Combined CEA-CABG in the ACS-NSQIP

Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) may be combined to treat concomitant coronary artery and carotid artery atherosclerotic disease. Previous reports on combined CEA/CABG have shown wide variation in adverse event rates for asymptomatic patients and have often been limited by small sample size or lack of granularity, or both. We aim to compare stroke and death after CEA/CABG with CEA or CABG alone in asymptomatic patients by using the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Abstracts from the 2014 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery Annual Symposium Source Type: research