CONCLUSIONS
Our results confirm that HCR is associated with excellent short-term outcomes, with a shorter length of hospital stay than traditional CABG. A HCR strategy for patients with TVD is associated with similar long-term survival and freedom from MACE to traditional CABG or multi-vessel PCI. HCR should be considered a feasible option for select patients with TVD, for those with intermediate SYNTAX scores and appropriate coronary anatomy, a proposal echoed by others (23, 31), presuming that a low residual SYNTAX score can be attained.
Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to Efstathia A Mihelis and to Sridhar Uttara for their assistance in data collection and management.