CONCLUSIONS
Our results confirm that HCR is associated with excellent short-term
outcomes, with a shorter length of hospital stay than traditional CABG.
A HCR strategy for patients with TVD is associated with similar
long-term survival and freedom from MACE to traditional CABG or
multi-vessel PCI. HCR should be considered a feasible option for select
patients with TVD, for those with intermediate SYNTAX scores and
appropriate coronary anatomy, a proposal echoed by others (23, 31),
presuming that a low residual SYNTAX score can be attained.
Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to Efstathia A
Mihelis and to Sridhar Uttara for their assistance in data collection
and management.