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 …

The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines was formed to gather information and
make recommendations about appropriate use of technology for the diagnosis and …

State-transition modeling (STM) is an intuitive, flexible, and transparent approach of
computer-based decision-analytic modeling, including both Markov model cohort simulation …

In patients with stable CAD, PCI can be considered a valuable initial mode of
revascularization in all patients with objective large ischaemia in the presence of almost …

OBJECTIVE: Critical limb ischemia, the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease,
results in extremity amputation if left untreated. Endovascular recanalization of stenotic or …

In developed nations, health care spending is an increasingly important economic and
political issue. The discipline of cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis has developed over several …

Background—In patients with severe aortic stenosis who cannot have surgery, transcatheter
aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been shown to improve survival and quality of life …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of transcatheter
aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared with surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) for …

Background—Restenosis after implantation of coronary artery stents remains a significant
clinical problem. We undertook a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to …

Background No prospective trial-based data are available for incremental cost-effectiveness
of drug-eluting stents (DES) compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in unselected patients …