Endovascular Versus Surgical Revascularization for Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia: Insights From the National Inpatient Sample Database

Conclusions
In a large, retrospective analysis of patients with CMI, endovascular therapy remained the dominant revascularization modality, and was associated with lower rates of MACCE, composite in-hospital complications, lower costs, and shorter length of stay compared with surgery.

Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions - December 4, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Lima, F. V., Kolte, D., Kennedy, K. F., Louis, D. W., Abbott, J. D., Soukas, P. A., Hyder, O. N., Mamdani, S. T., Aronow, H. D. Tags: Peripheral Source Type: research