Short term outcomes
Postoperative characteristics are shown in Table 3. Operative deaths
occurred in 6 of the CVG patients, compared to 4 of the PAR patients
(p>0.05). The most common cause of death was cardiac. Two
(5.7%) patients in the CVG group and 4 (13.3%) patients in the PAR
group had a new post-operative neurological deficit. There was no
statistically significant difference between both groups.