Comparison of late (four years) functional health status between percutaneous transluminal angioplasty intervention and off-pump left internal mammary artery bypass grafting for isolated high-grade narrowing of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery.
- Resource Type
- Academic Journal
- Authors
- Drenth DJ; Thoraxcentre of the Groningen University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands.; Veeger NJ; Middel B; Zijlstra F; Boonstra PW
- Source
- Publisher: Excerpta Medica Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0207277 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0002-9149 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00029149 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Cardiol Subsets: MEDLINE
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0002-9149
In a 4-year follow-up study, we compared functional health status (FHS) in patients randomized to surgery (n = 51) or angioplasty (n = 51) for an isolated narrowing of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery. FHS was assessed with the Short Form-36 and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaires. Although the occurrence of angina (p = 0.036) and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (p = 0.02) was significantly higher 4 years after angioplasty, FHS did not differ between treatments and was comparable to a healthy reference population.