Long-term Outcomes After Coronary Bypass Show Worse Outcomes for Women
Better outcomes seen in multiple vs. single coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) in men and sex appears to play a role in mortality
A coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure where blockages in the coronaries are bypassed using a blood vessel harvested from elsewhere in the body and connected to the vessel past the blockage to supply blood to the heart. A new study shows better outcomes seen in multiple vs. single coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) in men and sex appears to play a role in mortality. Getty Images
December 24, 2020
Multiple arterial grafting (MAG) leads to better CABG outcomes compared with single arterial grafts (SAG) in patients with low, but not high, preoperative risk, according to a new analysis. However, these risk cutoffs differ between men and women, leading the researchers to argue the need for dedicated surgical studies in women.
“I hope that this work [will] be a wake-up call for the surgical community so that my colleagues understand that we need to study women in studies that are designed specifically for women,” lead author Mario Gaudino, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY), told TCTMD. “We have to stop assuming that what we see in the general population is true for women. It is not the case.”