Bilateral Internal Mammary Artery Utilization in Diabetics: Friend or Foe?

CONCLUSIONS: In this statewide analysis, diabetics who received BIMA grafts (compared to diabetics with LIMA grafts or non-diabetics with BIMA grafts) had higher O/E ratios for composite morbidity/mortality as a result of higher O/E ratios for major complications. PMID: 29758209 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - May 11, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Crawford TC, Zhou X, Fraser CD, Magruder JT, Suarez-Pierre A, Alejo D, Bobbitt J, Fonner CE, Wehberg K, Taylor B, Kwon C, Fiocco M, Conte JV, Salenger R, Whitman GJ, Investigators for the Maryland Cardiac Surgery Quality Initiative Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research