The Impact of Peripheral Vascular Disease on Long-Term Survival After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Danny Chu, MD, Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD, Xing Li Wang, MD, PhD, Tam K. Dao, PhD, Scott A. LeMaire, MD, Joseph S. Coselli, MD, Joseph Huh, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 86, Issue 4, Pages 1175-1180 (October 2008) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.024 Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Unadjusted Kaplan-Meier survival curves after coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with (+ [gray line]) and without (– [black line]) peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Numbers along the curves designate patients at risk at specific intervals. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2008 86, 1175-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.024) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Risk-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression survival curves after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in patients with (+ [gray line]) and without (− [black line]) peripheral vascular disease (PVD). Numbers along the curves designate patients at risk at specific intervals. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2008 86, 1175-1180DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.024) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions