Coronary revascularization surgery: feasibility after myocardial infarction

Rogers, W.J.; Smith, L.R.; Oberman, A.; Kouchoukos, N.T.; Mantle, J.A.; Russell, R.O.; Rackley, C.E.

Postgraduate Medicine 69(1): 36-49

1981


ISSN/ISBN: 0032-5481
PMID: 6970366
Document Number: 169729
Since coronary revascularization improves prognosis in some patients with multivessel disease, can the potential benefits be extended to "prophylaxis" in selected postinfarction patients as well? These investigators sought the answer on the basis of patient characteristics, types of surgery, survival data, and mode of death in the postinfarction population of 129 patients who had early angiography.

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