Prediction of Male Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Outcomes Using Body Surface Area Weighted Left Ventricular End-diastolic Diameter: Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

Zhihui Zhu   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Yuehuan Li   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Fan Zhang   ¹ , MD ;   Stefanie Steiger   ² , PhD ;   Cheng Guo   ³ , PhD ;   Nan Liu   ¹ , MD ;   Jiakai Lu   ¹ , MD ;   Guangpu Fan   ⁴ , MD ;   Wenbo Wu   ⁵ , MD ;   Mingying Wu   ⁵ , MD ;   Huaibin Wang   ⁶ , MD ;   Dong Xu   ⁷ , MD ;   Yu Chen   ⁴ , MD ;   Junming Zhu   ¹ , MD ;   Xu Meng   ¹ , MD ;   Xiaotong Hou   ¹ , MD ;   Hans-Joachim Anders   ² , MD ;   Jian Ye   ⁸ , MD ;   Zhe Zheng   ⁹ , MD ;   Chenyu Li   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Haibo Zhang   ^{1 *} , MD

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

² Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

³ Allianz Technology, Allianz, Munich, Germany

⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China

⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Beijing Hospital, Beijing, China

⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Beijing Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

⁸ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally