title: [Frequency and surgical mortality in surgery of the heart and of the intrathoracic large vessels. I. Direct coronary revascularizations].
abstract: The number of bypass operations has increased considerably in the last decade. This applies mainly to the multiple bypasses. The number of single bypasses is beginning to decrease. The proportion of the elderly among the patients is rising markedly. The surgical mortality is decreasing strongly, especially among males. It is higher for females than for males. Interestingly, this mortality is not higher for multiple bypasses than for single ones, rather the reverse. The mortality rate of implantation of the internal mammary artery into a coronary vessel is very low. The surgical mortality of bypass operations is lower than, for instance, that of partial gastrectomy or of pulmonary lobectomy.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hoogendoorn
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Frequenties van en operatieve sterfte bij operaties aan het hart en de intrathoracale grote vaten. I. Directe coronaria-revascularisaties.