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A comparison of three-year survival after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

Edward L. Hannan, PhD^*, Michael J. Racz, MA^*, Ben D. McCallister, MD, FACC, Thomas J. Ryan, MD, FACC, Djavad T. Arani, MD, FACC, O. Wayne Isom, MD^|| and Robert H. Jones, MD^¶

^* State University of New York, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA
Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, New York, USA
^|| New York Hospital-Cornell, New York, New York, USA
^¶ Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

View larger version (61K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Percentage of patients undergoing a second revascularization procedure within 4 years. CABG = coronary artery bypass graft; PTCA = percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

View larger version (64K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 The 95% confidence interval for Ln (adjusted hazard ratio) of CABG patient death: PTCA patient death within a 3-year period (excluding patients with myocardial infarction less than 24 h before procedure). LAD = left anterior descending artery.

View larger version (54K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Adjusted Kaplan–Meier survival curve: CABG versus PTCA for one-vessel disease/no LAD. Abbreviations as in Figure 2.

View larger version (54K): [in a new window]   Figure 4 Adjusted Kaplan–Meier survival curve: CABG versus PTCA for one-vessel disease/proximal LAD. Abbreviations as in Figure 2.

View larger version (51K): [in a new window]   Figure 5 Adjusted Kaplan–Meier survival curve: CABG versus PTCA for two-vessel disease/proximal LAD. Abbreviations as in Figure 2.

View larger version (54K): [in a new window]   Figure 6 Adjusted Kaplan–Meier survival curve: CABG versus PTCA for three-vessel disease/nonproximal LAD. Abbreviations as in Figure 2.

View larger version (56K): [in a new window]   Figure 7 Adjusted Kaplan–Meier survival curve: CABG versus PTCA for three-vessel disease/proximal LAD. Abbreviations as in Figure 2.