Time-varying survival benefit of radial artery versus vein grafting: A multiinstitutional analysis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1328-1334

  Schwann, Thomas A ^a,c   Tranbaugh, Robert F ^b   Dimitrova, Kamellia R ^b   Engoren, Milo C ^c,d   Kabour, Ameer ^c   Hoffman, Darryl M ^b   Geller, Charles M ^b   Ko, Wilson ^b   Habib, Robert H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ST VINCENT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; REVASCULARIZATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SEX; UNITED STATES;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898598282     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.09.096     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. D.M. Shahian, S.M. O'Brien, and S. Sheng et al. Predictors of long term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (the ASCERT study) Circulation 125 2012 1491 1500
2. M.E. Farkouh, M. Domanski, L.A. Sleeper FREEDOM Trial Investigators Strategies for multivessel revascularization in patients with diabetes N Engl J Med 367 2012 2375 2384
3. A.P. Kappetein, T.E. Feldman, and M.J. Mack et al. Comparison of coronary bypass surgery with drug-eluting stenting for the treatment of left main and/or three-vessel disease: 3-year follow-up of the SYNTAX trial Eur Heart J 32 2011 2125 2134
4. B.W. Lytle, E.H. Blackstone, J.F. Sabik, P. Houghtaling, F.D. Loop, and D.M. Cosgrove The effect of bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting on survival during 20 postoperative years Ann Thorac Surg 78 2004 2005 2014
5. J.S. Rankin, R.H. Tuttle, A.S. Wechsler, T.L. Teichmann, D.D. Glower, and R.M. Califf Techniques and benefits of multiple internal mammary artery bypass at 20 years of follow-up Ann Thorac Surg 83 2007 1008 1015
6. P.A. Kurlansky, E.A. Traad, M.J. Dorman, D.L. Galbut, M. Zucker, and G. Ebra Thirty-year follow-up defines survival benefit for second internal mammary artery in propensity-matched groups Ann Thorac Surg 90 2010 101 108
7. R.F. Tranbaugh, K.R. Dimitrova, and P. Friedmann et al. Radial artery conduits improve long-term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting Ann Thorac Surg 90 2010 1165 1172
8. A. Zacharias, R.H. Habib, T.A. Schwann, C.J. Riordan, S.J. Durham, and A. Shah Improved survival with radial artery versus vein conduits in coronary bypass surgery with left internal thoracic artery to left anterior descending artery grafting Circulation 109 2004 1489 1496
9. J. Tatoulis, B.F. Buxton, and J.A. Fuller et al. Long-term patency of 1108 radial arterial-coronary angiograms over 10 years Ann Thorac Surg 88 2009 23 30
10. N.D. Desai, D. Naylor, A. Kiss Radial Artery Patency Study Investigators Impact of patient and target vessel characteristics on arterial and venous bypass graft patency: insight from a randomized trial Circulation 115 2007 684 691
11. S. Deb, E.A. Cohen, S.K. Singh, D. Une, A. Laupacis, S.E. Fremes RAPS Investigators Radial artery and saphenous vein patency more than 5 years after coronary artery bypass surgery. Results from RAPS (Radial Artery Patency Study) J Am Coll Cardiol 60 2012 28 35
12. G. Possati, M. Gaudino, and F. Prati et al. Long-term results of the radial artery used for myocardial revascularization Circulation 108 2003 1350 1354
13. A.L. Iacò, G. Teodori, and G. Di Giammarco et al. Radial artery for myocardial revascularization: long-term clinical and angiographic results Ann Thorac Surg 72 2001 46 49
14. J.H. Alexander, G. Hafley, R.A. Harrington PREVENT IV Investigators Efficacy and safety of edifoligide, an E2F transcription factor decoy, for prevention of vein graft failure following coronary artery bypass graft surgery: PREVENT IV: a randomized controlled trial JAMA 294 2005 2446 2454
15. T. Athanasiou, S. Saso, and C. Rao et al. Radial artery versus saphenous vein conduits for coronary artery bypass surgery: forty years of competition - which conduit offers better patency? A systematic review and meta-analysis Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 40 2011 208 220
16. T.A. Schwann, M. Engoren, M. Bonnell, C. Clancy, and R.H. Habib Comparison of late coronary artery bypass graft survival effects of radial artery versus saphenous vein grafting in male and female patients Ann Thorac Surg 94 2012 1485 1491
17. R.H. Habib, T.A. Schwann, and M. Engoren Late effects of radial artery versus saphenous vein grafting in patients aged 70 years or older Ann Thorac Surg 94 2012 1478 1484
18. P.C. Austin Using the standardized difference to compare the prevalence of a binary variable between two groups in observational research Commun Stat Simulat Comput 38 2009 1228 1234
19. C. Locker, H.V. Schaff, and J.A. Dearani et al. Multiple arterial grafts improve late survival of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery; analysis of 8622 patients with multivessel disease Circulation 126 2012 1023 1030
20. A. Zacharias, T.A. Schwann, C.J. Riordan, S.J. Durham, A.S. Shah, and R.H. Habib Late results of conventional versus all-arterial revascularization based on internal thoracic and radial artery grafting Ann Thorac Surg 87 2009 19 26
21. A. Zacharias, T.A. Schwann, and C.J. Riordan et al. Late outcomes after radial artery versus saphenous vein grafting during reoperative coronary artery bypass surgery J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 139 2010 1511 1518
22. T.A. Schwann, A. Zacharias, C.J. Riordan, S.J. Durham, A.S. Shah, and R.H. Habib Sequential radial artery grafts for multivessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery: 10-year survival and angiography results Ann Thorac Surg 88 2009 31 39
23. T.A. Schwann, A. Zacharias, C.J. Riordan, S.J. Durham, A.S. Shah, and R.H. Habib Survival and graft patency after coronary artery bypass grafting with coronary endarterectomy: role of arterial versus vein conduits Ann Thorac Surg 84 2007 25 31
24. S. Goldman, G.K. Sethi, and W. Holman et al. Radial artery grafts versus saphenous vein grafts in coronary artery bypass surgery. A randomized trial JAMA 305 2011 167 174
25. J.D. Puskas, A. Sadiq, T.A. Vassiliades, P.D. Kilgo, and O.M. Lattouf Bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting is associated with significantly improved long-term survival, even among diabetic patients Ann Thorac Surg 94 2012 710 716
26. V. Guru, S.E. Fremes, and J.V. Tu How many arterial grafts are enough? A population-based study of midterm outcomes J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 131 2006 1021 1028
27. D.P. Taggart, D.G. Altman, A.M. Gray ART Investigators Randomized trial to compare bilateral vs. single internal mammary coronary artery bypass grafting: 1-year results of the Arterial Revascularisation Trial (ART) Eur Heart J 31 2010 2470 2481