Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36237804›Full record

ArticleCureus2022

Computed Tomography-Based Angiographic Evaluation of Graft Patency Rate After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in Bangladesh.

Redoy Ranjan, Kevin Matthew Sales, Asit Baran Adhikary

Open access · diamondAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Observational
  2. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Redoy RanjanCardiac Surgery, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, BGD.
Kevin Matthew SalesCardiac Surgery, St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, GBR.
Asit Baran AdhikaryCardiac Surgery, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, BGD.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University · BD

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background This study aims to assess the graft patency rate following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery using noninvasive CT angiography.  Materials and methods A total of 68 patients were retrospectively evaluated with CT angiography (group I: 34 patients with coronary endarterectomy (CE) and group II: 34 patients without CE). CE was performed in multi-segmental diffuse coronary artery disease (CAD) or when calcified or extremely thick plaques made anastomosis troublesome. A team of two experts, an interventional radiologist and a cardiac surgeon, did the evaluations of graft patency rate. Results A total of 205 bypass grafts were evaluated in 68 post-CABG status patients (110 grafts in group I and 95 grafts in group II; moreover, 82 were arterial and 123 were venous grafts). Post CABG, CT angiography demonstrated a graft patency rate of about 90% in both study groups at five years follow up, which was statistically insignificant (P > 0.05) in terms of graft patency rate. Following CE, five-year angina-free survival rates were 89% and 91% in groups I and II, respectively. Conclusion CABG surgery with endarterectomy is reliable and effective. It achieves the desired surgical myocardial revascularization in patients with diffuse calcified CAD having no alternative options for adequate myocardial revascularization.

Indexed as

cabgcoronary artery bypass graftct angiogramendarterectomygraft patency

Identifiers

PMID36237804
PMCPMC9544526
OpenAlexW4294898318

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.