Characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention within 1 year of coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Abstract

Patients who required PCI within 1 year of CABG were more likely to present on an urgent basis and have PCI performed in grafted native coronary vessels. However, nearly third of the patients had PCI to an ungrafted native vessel or to a lesion in the native vessel where the graft was still patent. Further studies are needed to determine whether the use of hybrid revascularization strategies (combination CABG and planned PCI) in appropriate patients could reduce the need for urgent PCI within the first year after CABG. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Improving outcomes after CABG and PCI

“…In this issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention , Sharma et al report the characteristics and outcomes of a subgroup of patients who required PCI for failed CABG within 1 year of surgery . They identified 203 patients over 11 years (2000–2011) derived from > 20,000 PCIs at the University Health Network in Toronto; the monthly rate of PCI was equally distributed during the first post‐operative year.…”