Why the study?
Does aortocoronary bypass surgery improve quality of life and symptoms compared to intensive medical therapy in patients with stable angina pectoris?
Does aortocoronary bypass surgery improve quality of life and symptoms compared to intensive medical therapy in patients with stable angina pectoris?
Aortocoronary bypass surgery provides significant symptomatic and quality of life improvements over intensive medical therapy for patients with stable angina pectoris.
Supports bypass for symptom relief in stable angina; leaves open confirmation versus contemporary medical therapy in randomized trials.
One- and two-year results of aortocoronary bypass for ischemic heart disease indicate that in stable angina pectoris, at least, the operation can be beneficial, ie, superior to intensive medical therapy, in achieving certain objectives. The operation is clearly a technical success, and prospects for very long-range patency of the grafts appear to be good. An observation of great interest is symptomatic improvement in some patients with occluded grafts. The greatest success of aortocoronary bypass is improvement in quality of life for certain patients.
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