Background Randomized trials comparing coronary angioplasty with bypass surgery in
patients with multivessel coronary disease have shown no significant differences in overall …

Background—Coronary bypass surgery (CABG) and angioplasty (PTCA) have been
compared in several randomized trials, but data about long-term economic and quality-of-life …

PURPOSE: To compare the cost-effectiveness of surgical and angioplasty-based coronary
artery revascularization techniques, in particular, angioplasty with primary stenting …

Background The Emory Angioplasty Versus Surgery Trial (EAST) is a randomized trial that
compares, by intention to treat, the clinical outcome and costs of percutaneous transluminal …

Background The Randomized Intervention Treatment of Angina (RITA) trial compares initial
policies of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and coronary artery …

Recent data from the medical literature and other sources were used in an analysis of the
cost-effectiveness of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in symptomatic patients …

Background—A Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study randomized high-risk
patients with medically refractory myocardial ischemia, a group largely excluded from …

The long-term effect of coronary artery bypass grafting on mortality and the incidence of
nonfatal myocardial infarction was evaluated in 686 patients in the randomized Veterans …

Brorsson B, Bernstein SJ, Brook RH, Werkö L (The Swedish Council on Technology
Assessment in Health Care, Stockholm, Sweden; Norrland University Hospital, Umeå …

Quality of life indexes were assessed in 780 patients 10 years after randomization to
medical therapy (n= 390) or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (n= 390) in the Coronary …