Coronary-artery bypass surgery: it works, but why?

Bulkley, B.H.; Ross, R.S.

Annals of Internal Medicine 88(6): 835-836

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0003-4819
PMID: 352216
Document Number: 137034
Coronary artery bypass surgery is overwhelmingly successful in the symptomatic treatment of angina pectoris. Eighty to 90% of patients who undergo this procedure experience relief of symptoms and 60-70% become pain-free. Experience has shown that not all the desired effects follow revascularization and that there is a discrepancy between the almost universal relief of pain and the reversal of the other manifestations of ischemia.

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