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3873614

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
26
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-7-15
pubmed:abstractText
The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) was designed to compare medical and surgical treatment of selected patients with chronic, stable coronary artery disease. This report concerns a subset of patients with reduced ventricular function. Of 780 patients randomly assigned to medical or surgical treatment, 160 had ejection fractions above 0.34 but below 0.50 at base line and have been followed for an average of seven years. Eighty-two patients were assigned to medical therapy, and 78 to surgery; the two groups were comparable at base line with regard to prognostically important variables. At seven years, 84 per cent of patients in the surgical group were alive, as compared with 70 per cent of the medical group (P = 0.01). Nearly half the patients with impaired ventricular function had triple-vessel disease at entry; at seven years, observed survival in this group was 88 and 65 per cent for those assigned to surgical and medical treatment, respectively (P = 0.009). Survival of patients with single-vessel or double-vessel disease was similar in the two treatment groups. We conclude that patients with triple-vessel disease and ejection fractions higher than 0.34 but lower than 0.50 appear to have improved seven-year survival with elective bypass surgery.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0028-4793
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
312
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1665-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
A randomized trial of coronary artery bypass surgery. Survival of patients with a low ejection fraction.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Randomized Controlled Trial