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

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Figure 2. Five-year survival in patients with single-vessel disease (SVD) versus multivessel disease (MVD).

The size of each box is proportional to the sample size of the trial. Bars represent 95% CIs. The I2 statistic for 5-year survival was 13 among SVD trials and 14 among MVD trials. ARTS = Arterial Revascularization Therapies Study; AWESOME = Angina with Extremely Serious Operative Mortality Evaluation; BARI = Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation; CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; 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. *Data were abstracted from Kaplan–Meier curves.

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  1. Published online before print October 15, 2007, Ann Intern Med November 20, 2007 vol. 147 no. 10 703-716
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