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 …

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Selected
patients with obstructive coronary artery disease benefit from revascularization with …

Aim The guideline for coronary artery revascularization replaces the 2011 coronary artery
bypass graft surgery and the 2011 and 2015 percutaneous coronary intervention guidelines …

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 …

Background Multiple arterial grafts may result in longer survival than single arterial grafts
after coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. We evaluated the use of bilateral …

Abstract Aims The SYNTAX II study evaluated the impact of advances in percutaneous
coronary intervention (PCI), integrated into a single revascularization strategy, on outcomes …

Background: Ten-year all-cause death according to incomplete (IR) versus complete
revascularization (CR) has not been fully investigated in patients with 3-vessel disease and …

Ischemic heart disease is a dynamic process of atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries or
functional alterations of coronary circulation that can be modified by lifestyle …

: Percutaneous treatment of coronary chronic total occlusions (CTO) has advanced greatly
since its advent in the late 1970s through the development of dedicated wires and …

Considerations for the choice between coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous
coronary intervention as revascularization strategies in major categories of patients with stable …