Bilateral versus single internal thoracic artery grafting in oral-treated diabetic subsets: comparative seven-year outcome analysis Oren Lev-Ran, MD, Rony Braunstein, PhD, Nahum Nesher, MD, Yanai Ben-Gal, MD, Gil Bolotin, MD, Gideon Uretzky, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 77, Issue 6, Pages 2039-2045 (June 2004) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.12.061
Fig 1 Cumulative survival; BITA (----) versus SITA (—) groups. (BITA = bilateral internal thoracic artery; SITA = single internal thoracic artery.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2004 77, 2039-2045DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.12.061)
Fig 2 Freedom from cardiac-related mortality; BITA (----) versus SITA (—) groups. (BITA = bilateral internal thoracic artery; SITA = single internal thoracic artery.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2004 77, 2039-2045DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.12.061)
Fig 3 Freedom from major adverse cardiac events (MACE); BITA (----) and SITA (—) groups. The occurrence of one or more of the following: late nonfatal myocardial infarction, reintervention, or cardiac-related mortality. (BITA = bilateral internal thoracic artery; SITA = single internal thoracic artery.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2004 77, 2039-2045DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.12.061)