Survival after Internal-Mammary (Thoracic)-Artery Grafting

To the Editor: In times gone by, comparisons between apples and oranges were made with caution. This has changed with the advent of more sophisticated statistical methods, as evidenced by the study "Influence of the Internal-Mammary-Artery Graft on 10-Year Survival and Other Cardiac Events"...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 314; no. 22; pp. 1453 - 1454
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 29.05.1986
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Humans
Myocardial Revascularization - mortality
Terminology as Topic
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Summary:To the Editor: In times gone by, comparisons between apples and oranges were made with caution. This has changed with the advent of more sophisticated statistical methods, as evidenced by the study "Influence of the Internal-Mammary-Artery Graft on 10-Year Survival and Other Cardiac Events" (Jan. 2 issue).* Loop et al. state that "the personal preferences of the surgeon determined the choice of graft to the anterior descending artery," but when deciding on an internal-mammary-artery graft, the surgeon preferred younger patients who were less frequently in functional class 3 or 4, had less triple-vessel disease, had better ventricular function, had more . . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM198605293142213