Coronary disease carries significant morbidity and mortality globally. The pandemic of
obesity and diabetes combined with an aging population have resulted in a significant …

Multivessel disease (MVD) affects approximately 50% of patients with acute coronary
syndromes (ACS) and is significantly burdened by poor outcomes and high mortality. It …

Andreas Gruentzig 25 years ago, he envisioned the procedure to be a technique that would
delay the need for CABG until severe multi-vessel coronary disease was present. Over the …

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to compare the safety, efficacy, and costs of
complete versus “culprit” vessel revascularization in multivessel coronary artery disease …

Background—This investigation compares the results of contemporary percutaneous
coronary intervention (PCI) with standard balloon angioplasty among patients with …

Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are
both safe and established treatment modalities of invasive revascularization for patients with …

Twenty-five years after its tentative beginnings, percu-taneous coronary intervention (PCI)
has become the dominant form of coronary revascularization. This year, the 800 000 PCI …

Aims: Percutaneous revascularisation triage has not been evaluated in randomised
controlled trials of patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE …

Recent analyses suggest the incidence of acute coronary syndrome is declining in high-and
middle-income countries. Despite this, overall rates of non-ST-elevation myocardial …

Recent randomized controlled trials have suggested that patients with ST-segment elevation
myocardial infarction and multivessel coronary artery disease may benefit more from …