title: [Complications shortly after transluminal angioplasty or following coronary surgery in 183 comparable patients with multi-vessel coronary disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Description of the differences in complications within 30 days after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and coronary surgery (CABG) in patients suffering from multiple vessel coronary disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective, randomised.
  
  
  METHODS
  3 hospitals in the Netherlands.
  
  
  METHODS
  Between 1988 and 1992, 183 Dutch patients took part in the European Coronary angioplasty versus bypass revascularisation investigation (CABRI) and were randomly treated with PTCA or CABG. Apart from the clinical result, all complications and cardiac events from time of randomisation until 30 days after the intervention were registered.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The CABG group consisted of 88 patients with a total of 255 vascular obstructions, the PTCA group of 95 patients with 294 vascular lesions. In this short period of observation the clinical results of the two treatments were the same. The death rates were 1.1% and 2.1%, for CABG and PTCA respectively. The proportion of transmural, non-fatal myocardial infarctions was 2.3% in the CABG group versus 3.1% in the PTCA group. The proportion of reinterventions was higher in the PTCA group, 11.4% versus 1.1%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The differences in death rate and myocardial infarctions are not significant, in contrast to the difference in the numbers of reinterventions. These results appear to be in accordance with those of other randomised studies. Although long-term evaluation is needed, treatment of multiple vessel coronary disease by means of PTCA seems a reasonable alternative to coronary surgery.
authors.affiliation: Academisch Ziekenhuis Rotterdam-Dijkzigt, Thoraxcentrum, Rotterdam.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Breeman
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Serruys
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: van den Brand
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Deckers
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: van Herwerden
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Roelandt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012008:Recurrence
vernacular_title: Complicaties kort na percutane transluminale angioplastiek of na coronariachirurgie bij 183 vergelijkbare patiënten met een meervatscoronaria-aandoening.