These Guidelines represent the third time that the ESC and EACTS have brought together
cardiologists and cardiac surgeons in a joint Task Force to review the ever-increasing body …

Background Despite recent studies, the optimum duration of dual antiplatelet therapy
(DAPT) after coronary drug-eluting stent placement remains uncertain. We performed a meta …

Propensity score (PS) methods offer certain advantages over more traditional regression
methods to control for confounding by indication in observational studies. Although …

always refer to the full text version, which is freely available on the ESC and EACTS
websites. The National Societies of the ESC are encouraged to endorse, translate, and …

Background Multiple arterial grafts may result in longer survival than single arterial grafts
after coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. We evaluated the use of bilateral …

Background: Previous meta-analyses have investigated the relative safety and efficacy
profiles of different types of drug-eluting stents (DES) and bare-metal stents (BMS); however …

Background The use of radial-artery grafts for coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) may
result in better postoperative outcomes than the use of saphenous-vein grafts. However …

Background The use of bilateral internal thoracic (mammary) arteries for coronary-artery
bypass grafting (CABG) may improve long-term outcomes as compared with the use of a …

Document Reviewers: Moritz WV Wyler von Ballmoos (USA), Mate Petricevic (Croatia), Arie
Pieter Kappetein (Netherlands), Miguel Sousa-Uva (Portugal), Georg Trummer (Germany) …

Cardiac surgery is associated with perioperative blood loss and a high risk of allogeneic
blood transfusion. Patient blood management (PBM) in cardiac surgery contributes to the …