Brittany Zwischenberger, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, was awarded the Thoracic Surgery Foundation Research Award at the STS Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA on January 24, 2025.
The grant will fund a nested registry to study hybrid revascularization (minimally invasive CABG LIMA-LAD plus PCI) in women, Black, or Hispanic patients with multivessel CAD. The parent study, RECHARGE, is a randomized controlled trial on women, Black and Hispanic patients with multivessel CAD and equipoise for sternotomy, CABG or multivessel PCI.
The Hybrid registry and RECHARGE Trial focus on quality of life metrics as well as survival and reintervention to help tailor revascularization strategies to these understudied patient populations.