Comparison of 30-Day and 5-Year Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients Aged ≤50 Years (the Coronary aRtery diseAse in younG adultS Study)

Data on the outcome of young patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are scarce. Data on 2,209 consecutive patients aged ≤50 years who underwent CABG or PCI were retrospectively collected from 15 European institutions. PCI and CABG had similar 30-day mortality rates (0.8% vs 1.4%, p = 0.27), late survival (at 5 years, 97.8% vs 94.9%, p = 0.082), and freedom from stroke (at 5 years, 98.0% and 98.0%, p = 0.731). PCI was associated with significantly lower freedom from major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (at 5 years, 73.9% vs 85.0%, p

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - May 5, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Fausto Biancari, Tomas Gudbjartsson, Jouni Heikkinen, Vesa Anttila, Timo Mäkikallio, Anders Jeppsson, Linda Thimour-Bergström, Carmelo Mignosa, Antonino S. Rubino, Kari Kuttila, Jarmo Gunn, Jan-Ola Wistbacka, Kari Teittinen, Kari Korpilahti, Francesco O Tags: Coronary Artery Disease Source Type: research