The Jury Is Still Out on the Use of Bilateral Internal Thoracic Arteries in Coronary Surgery
Once again, analyses of studies that are ostensibly well-designed randomized controlled trials have limitations that do not answer the question at hand: are two-arterial CABGs better than one? This editorial comments on a publication regarding the EXCEL Study, which showed no differences at 3 years.
I respectfully disagree with the title of the learned editorial. The three year outcome is irrelevant in interrogating benefits of arterial conduits.