Surgical myocardial revascularization versus percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents in octogenarian patients.

Objective: Our goal was to compare the clinical outcomes of octogenarian (or older) patients who are referred for either surgical or percutaneous coronary revascularization.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the outcomes of all patients 80 years of age who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with an internal mammary artery or had undergone a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with a sirolimus-eluting stent to the left anterior descending artery in our center between May 2002 and December 2006.

Results: Of the 301 patients, 120 underwent a PCI, and 181 underwent CABG.