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Early emergent coronary bypass after failed angioplasty
M S Hochberg1, J J Gregory, J McCullough
1Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, NJ 07112.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|May 1, 1993
Abstract:
Emergency CABG for failed coronary angioplasty was required in 3.3 percent of 1,625 consecutive patients undergoing angioplasties. Twenty-six percent of the patients died in the perioperative period. Efforts must be concentrated on identifying PTCA failure prior to cardiogenic shock.