title: Surgery for left main coronary artery disease.
abstract: The early and late results of the first 103 patients with left main coronary obstruction submitted to bypass grafting in South Australia are presented. A satisfactory hospital mortality of 2.9% and a surprisingly low late mortality of 2.9% (at an average follow-up time of 30 months), were obtained, and these figures, when taken in conjunction with a symptomatic relief rate of 83% at 24 months, have encouraged us to continue to recommend coronary artery grafting as the treatment of choice of left main stem disease.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous