The rationale for Heart Team decision-making for patients with stable, complex coronary artery disease

SJ Head, S Kaul, MJ Mack, PW Serruys… - European heart …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Stable complex coronary artery disease can be treated with coronary artery bypass grafting
(CABG), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), or medical therapy. Multidisciplinary …

Myonecrosis after revascularization procedures

RM Califf, AE Abdelmeguid, RE Kuntz… - Journal of the American …, 1998 - jacc.org
The detection of elevated cardiac enzyme levels and the occurrence of electrocardiographic
(ECG) abnormalities after revascularization procedures have been the subject of recent …

Systematic review: the comparative effectiveness of percutaneous coronary interventions and coronary artery bypass graft surgery

DM Bravata, AL Gienger, KM McDonald… - Annals of internal …, 2007 - acpjournals.org
Background: The comparative effectiveness of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery
and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for patients in whom both procedures are …

Coronary artery bypass surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention with stent implantation in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (the Stent or …

SoS Investigators - The Lancet, 2002 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Results of trials, comparing percutaneous transluminal coronary
angioplasty (PICA) with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), indicate that rates of death …

In-hospital outcomes of contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with chronic total occlusion: insights from the J-CTO Registry (Multicenter CTO …

Y Morino, T Kimura, Y Hayashi, T Muramatsu… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2010 - jacc.org
Objectives: Our aim was to investigate in-hospital outcomes of percutaneous coronary
intervention (PCI) of chronic total occlusion (CTO) using contemporary techniques …

A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing coronary artery bypass graft with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: one-to eight-year …

SN Hoffman, JA TenBrook, MP Wolf, JB Wong… - Journal of the American …, 2003 - jacc.org
Objectives: We performed a meta-analysis of randomized trials comparing coronary artery
bypass graft surgery (CABG) with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) …

Quantifying the early health status benefits of successful chronic total occlusion recanalization: Results from the FlowCardia's Approach to Chronic Total Occlusion …

JA Grantham, PG Jones, L Cannon… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Data on the health status benefits of percutaneous coronary intervention for
coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs), a principal indication for the procedure, are …

Management of acute coronary syndromes: acute coronary syndromes without persistent ST segment elevation. Recommendations of the Task Force of the European …

ME Bertrand, ML Simoons, KAA Fox… - European heart …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
(1) Patients with a presumed acute coronary syndrome with ongoing chest discomfort and
persistent ST-segment elevation (or new-onset LBBB). Persistent ST-segment elevation …

ACC/AHA guidelines for coronary artery bypass graft surgery: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on Practice …

KA Eagle, RA Guyton, R Davidoff, GA Ewy… - Journal of the American …, 1999 - jacc.org
Summary...... 1277 1.3. 4. Comparison With Percutaneous Techniques...... 1277 1.3. 4.1.
Overview of Randomized Trials...... 1278 1.3. 4.2. Results of Randomized Trials...... 1280 1.3 …

Management of coronary artery disease: therapeutic options in patients with diabetes

T Hammoud, JF Tanguay, MG Bourassa - Journal of the American College …, 2000 - jacc.org
OBJECTIVES The aim of this review is to discuss the particularities of coronary artery
disease (CAD), the effect of intensive medical management and the outcome of …