Interventions. Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the
American College of Cardiology (www. cardiosource. org), the American Heart Association …

Stroke is one of the most feared complications of surgery. This article reviews the
pathophysiology of perioperative stroke, explains risk-factor stratification, and provides …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted as the document was compiled through …

Whenever possible, the recommendations listed in this document are evidence based.
Articles reviewed in this guideline revision covered evidence from the past 10 years through …

Preamble t is becoming more apparent each day that despite a strong national commitment
to excellence in health care, the resources and personnel are finite. It is therefore …

Background—Guidelines recommend coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) over
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for multivessel disease and severe left ventricular …

Background—Although most randomized clinical trials have suggested that long-term
survival rates after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or surgical multivessel …

Revascularization is a treatment option for moderate-to-severe ischemic cardiomyopathy.
Limitations of the current literature, lack of completed randomized trials, and higher …

Objective: Multiple strategies to achieve some degree of myocardial revascularization are
available. In some, less complete revascularization is accepted to limit invasiveness. To …

Twenty years have passed since the beginning of clinical interventional cardiology on the
occasion of the first angioplasty procedure performed by Andreas Gruentzig. This discipline …