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.