Systematic Review: The Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

The size of each box is proportional to the sample size of the trial. Bars represent 95% CIs. The I² statistic was <1 for both procedural survival and procedural stroke risk. AMIST = Angioplasty versus Minimally Invasive Surgery Trial; ARTS = Arterial Revascularization Therapies Study; AWESOME = Angina with Extremely Serious Operative Mortality Evaluation; BARI = Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation; CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; CABRI = Coronary Angioplasty versus Bypass Revascularization Investigation; EAST = Emory Angioplasty versus Surgery Trial; ERACI = Argentine randomized trial of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty versus coronary artery bypass surgery in multivessel disease; GABI = German Angioplasty Bypass Surgery Investigation; MASS = Medicine, Angioplasty, or Surgery Study; PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention; RITA = Randomized Intervention Treatment of Angina; SIMA = Stenting versus Internal Mammary Artery Study; SoS = Stent or Surgery. *Survival data were abstracted from Kaplan–Meier curves.