Off-pump bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting in patients with left main coronary artery disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To compare postoperative outcomes in patients with left main coronary artery disease who underwent off-pump isolated coronary artery bypass grafting for multivessel disease using either skeletonized bilateral or single internal thoracic artery (ITA).

Methods

Among 1583 patients who underwent isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in our hospital between 2002 and 2022, 604 patients with left main coronary artery disease underwent single (n = 169) or bilateral (n = 435) ITA grafting. We compared postoperative outcomes between the two groups after adjusting preoperative characteristics using inverse probability of treatment weighting.

Results

After adjustment using inverse probability of treatment weighting method, the sum of weights was 599.74 in BIT

SUBMITTER: Hachiro K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858637 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature