These Guidelines represent the third time that the ESC and EACTS have brought together
cardiologists and cardiac surgeons in a joint Task Force to review the ever-increasing body …

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 …

always refer to the full text version, which is freely available on the ESC and EACTS
websites. The National Societies of the ESC are encouraged to endorse, translate, and …

Surveys and registries are needed to verify that real-life daily practice is in keeping with what
is recommended in the guidelines, thus completing the loop between clinical research …

Background We hypothesized that in patients with stable coronary artery disease and
stenosis, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) performed on the basis of the fractional …

Background The preferred initial treatment for patients with stable coronary artery disease is
the best available medical therapy. We hypothesized that in patients with functionally …

These guidelines are intended to apply to adult patients with stable known or suspected
ischemic heart disease (IHD), including those with new-onset chest pain (ie, low-risk …

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in
developed countries. In patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), timely …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted through November 2010, as well as selected …

Aims The present analysis addresses the potential clinical and physiologic significance of
discordance in severity of coronary artery disease between the angiogram and fractional …