To the Editor: In an interim analysis of the Arterial Revascularization Trial (ART) at 5 years (Dec. 29 issue), 1 Taggart et al. found no significant differences in clinical outcomes between patients ...

Coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a procedure in which autologous arteries or veins are used as grafts to bypass coronary arteries that are partially or completely obstructed by ...

Patient survival after CABG with bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafting is partially dependent on the proportion of myocardial mass supplied by the selected target vessels, according to a ...

Among over 1.2 million patients who underwent primary isolated CABG from 2011 to 2020, women had a higher unadjusted operative mortality versus men (2.8% vs 1.7%, P<0.001), as well as a higher overall ...

New long-term data from the CSP 474 trial offers a challenge to some of the conventional wisdom around graft choice in CABG surgery and may further the debate over recent guideline recommendations.

Doctors at Rome's Sant'Andrea hospital have performed a pulmonary artery transplant on a patient in their 70s with lung ...

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...