Abstract
Since 1974, when Dawson et al 1 documented an extremely high operative mortality in a large series of patients who had coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) within 30 days of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), controversy has existed concerning the proper timing of such procedures. Widely varying mortality rates still appear in recently published reports, but several studies have been carried out that report mortality rates as low as ≤1%. 2–5 Because most of these studies do not detail whether the infarcts were transmural or nontransmural, we attempted to determine whether operative mortality could be correlated with the type of infarct and the timing of CABG after the infarct.
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