The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
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The study objective was to evaluate whether increasing frailty, as measured by the Clinical Frailty Scale, was associated with an increased risk of hospital mortality for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. ⋯ This study demonstrated that increasing Clinical Frailty Scale was strongly associated with increased hospital mortality, hospital and intensive care unit length of stay, invasive ventilation hours, renal replacement therapy, and tracheostomy insertion among patients undergoing cardiac surgery in Australia and New Zealand.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Jun 2024
Meta AnalysisCoronary surgery provides better survival than drug eluting stent: a pooled meta-analysis of Kaplan-Meier-derived individual patient data.
We explored the current evidence on coronary disease treatment comparing the survival of 2 therapeutic strategies: coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stent (DES). ⋯ The present meta-analysis suggests that CABG provides a consistent survival benefit over PCI with DES.