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When doable, it is the favored treatment versus coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) as it is less invasive.
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By contrast, 90% of CABG procedures were deemed appropriate and 1.1% inappropriate.
FORBES: Revascularization In New York State: High Questionable Rates For PCI But Not CABG
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At 64, Isom said he can pretty much decide what he wants to do -- and he prefers surgery that includes valve replacements to simple CABG, which Clinton underwent.
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Within one year of an angioplasty, as many as 20 to 30 percent of patients develop partial or complete obstruction at the site of angioplasty that requires a repeat procedure, or CABG.
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Their observational study was conducted with data from asymptomatic patients with a history of PCI or CABG who were referred for ExE at the Cleveland Clinic from January 2000 through November 2010.
FORBES: No Benefit Found For Exercise Echocardiography In Asymptomatic Patients Following CABG Or PCI
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Serge Harb and colleagues performed exercise echocardiography on 2, 105 patients following CABG surgery or PCI and followed them for a mean of 5.7 years. 13% of the subjects were found to have ischemia.
FORBES: No Benefit Found For Exercise Echocardiography In Asymptomatic Patients Following CABG Or PCI
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From 1999 through 2001, two of the 175 patients on whom Isom performed a simple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) died, a 1.14 percent mortality rate, according to figures recently released by the New York State Department of Health.
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