Coronary artery bypass grafting in chronic coronary heart disease

  • R. W. Hacker
  • M. Torka
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Part of the Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine book series (DICM, volume 57)

Abstract

Conservative treatment as well as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) have shifted the indication for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) towards more severely diseased hearts, taking away the good risk cases with proximally obstructed, but otherwise wide-calibred coronary arteries and well-preserved ventricles, and replacing them by patients with diffusely diseased vessels and scarred myocardium, not responding to medical treatment, and not amenable to PTCA.

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  • M. Torka

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