1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
In this issue of the journal, Kotoky et al shed light on the association between periprocedural major adverse events (PMAE) and long-term mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a post hoc analysis of the SYNTAX trial1. The authors should be congratulated for this important work and the food for thought it provides.
PMAE were defined as a composite of numerous periprocedural complications occurring within 30 days from the index procedure. Patients undergoing CABG were more likely to experience one of these events than those undergoing PCI (28.2% vs 11.2%; p<0.001). ...