Impact of delays to cardiac surgery after failed angioplasty and stenting
Mat Lotfi, MD*,
Karen Mackie, RN*,
Vladimir Dzavik, MD* and
Peter H. Seidelin, MD*,*
* Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Figure 1 Lesion characteristics of patients who were referred for urgent coronary artery bypass surgery (UCABG) (white bars) versus patients not referred for UCABG (black bars). Total number of lesions in the UCABG group and the no-UCABG group were 68 and 8,604, respectively. * p < 0.05 for significant differences between groups.
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Figure 2 Number of patients referred for urgent coronary artery bypass graft categorized by the time to arrival to the operating room (OR) after referral.
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