Long-Term Survival After Coronary Arterial Grafts in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease Taro Nakatsu, MD, Nobushige Tamura, MD, PhD, Yutaka Sakakibara, MD, PhD, Kouji Hagio, MD, Masanosuke Ishigami, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 90, Issue 3, Pages 738-743 (September 2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.069 Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Survival. No statistical differences were observed regarding patient survival (p = 0.2201). (--- = single internal thoracic artery [SITA]; — = bilateral internal thoracic artery [BITA].) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 90, 738-743DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.069) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Freedom from cardiac death (including in-hospital death, cardiogenic death, and sudden death). No statistical differences were observed between the two groups (p = 0.3425). (--- = single internal thoracic artery [SITA]; — = bilateral internal thoracic artery [BITA].) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 90, 738-743DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.069) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Freedom from cardiac events (including cardiac death, myocardial infarction, recurrent angina, repeated coronary artery bypass grafting, repeated percutaneous coronary intervention, and congestive heart failure). No significant differences were observed between the two groups (p = 0.4106). (--- = single internal thoracic artery [SITA]; — = bilateral internal thoracic artery [BITA].) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 90, 738-743DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.069) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Survival among patients without diabetes mellitus. There were no statistical differences between the BITA group and the SITA group (p = 0.0895). (--- = single internal thoracic artery [SITA]; — = bilateral internal thoracic artery [BITA].) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 90, 738-743DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.069) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 5 Freedom from cardiac events (including cardiac death, myocardial infarction, recurrent angina, repeated coronary artery bypass grafting, repeated percutaneous coronary intervention, and congestive heart failure) among patients without diabetes mellitus. The BITA group shows better outcome than the SITA group (p = 0.0080). (--- = single internal thoracic artery [SITA]; — = bilateral internal thoracic artery [BITA].) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010 90, 738-743DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.04.069) Copyright © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions