Two-Year Follow-Up of Angina Pectoris: Medical or Surgical Therapy
Abstract
The effects of bypass graft surgery versus continued medical management in 40 patients with stable angina were evaluated at 2 years: 17 of 20 surgical patients (85%) and 18 of 20 medical patients (90%) were alive, and 5 of 20 surgical patients (25%) and 2 of 20 medical patients (10%) had developed myocardial infarction; 8 of 17 surgical patients (47%) and 4 of 18 medical patients (22%) had no angina, and 13 of 17 surgical patients (76%) and 9 of 18 medical patients (50%) had no angina or greater than a 25% increase in exercise time until angina. No statistically significant differences were demonstrated between the medical and surgical groups for all variables submitted to statistical analysis.
Article and Author Information
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▸From the Cardiology Section and the Surgical Service, Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach; and the Cardiovascular Division and the Surgery Division, University of California, Irvine; California.
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▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Wilbert S. Aronow, M.D., Chief, Cardiology Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach, CA 90801.
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- Received July 31, 1974.
- Accepted August 12, 1974.
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