Coronary Disease - PCI

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Large Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm Replacement with Vascular Prothesis in a Patient with Coronary Artery Disease and PFO

August 1, 2023 | Mohamed Eldeiry…

This video presents the management of a complex and infrequently encountered scenario. A sixty-nine-year-old patient had a large pulmonary artery aneurysm extending from the main pulmonary artery (PA) up to the bifurcation with further extension...

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Spontaneous Myocardial Infarction After Left Main Revascularization: The EXCEL Trial

March 26, 2026 | Vincent SierSilver Contributor

In this pre-specified analysis of the EXCEL trial, 1,882 patients with left main disease underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=952) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) (n=930). At five years,...

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Percutaneous vs. Surgical Revascularization of Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction With Multivessel Disease: The SWEDEHEART Registry

March 6, 2025 | Mateo Marin-Cuartas

The debate continues over long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) vs. coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and multivessel disease. This study,...

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Commentary: What Matters More—Method of Revascularization or Completeness?

April 24, 2024 | Mujtaba MubashirGold Contributor

This commentary succinctly reviews the 2021 coronary revascularization and the 2023 chronic coronary disease guidelines with relation to use of PCI and CABG in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and ejection...

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Coronary Plaque Sampling Reveals Molecular Insights Into Coronary Artery Disease

August 7, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

In a research letter on a small pilot genomic study of sampling coronary atheroma, the authors offer a brief explanation on how their technique can be applied to detect stability...

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Stroke Rates Following Surgical Versus Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization

July 31, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Head and colleagues used a patient-data pooled analysis of 11 randomized clinical trials to compare stroke rates between surgical and percutaneous coronary revascularization. They found that in the first 30...

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Five-Year Outcomes With PCI Guided by Fractional Flow Reserve

May 23, 2018 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Over 1200 patients with stable coronary artery disease and at least one angiographically-significant stenosis were randomized to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) plus medical therapy or medical therapy alone for lesions...

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Hybrid Coronary Revascularization in Selected Patients With Multivessel Disease: 5-Year Clinical Outcomes of the Prospective Randomized Pilot Study

April 20, 2018 | Arie BlitzBronze ContributorSilver Commentor

The authors present the 5-year follow-up results of the HYBRID trial, wherein 200 patients with multivessel disease requiring revascularization were randomized to either conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or...

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An Update on Coronary Revascularization

April 4, 2018 | Leanne Harling (Ashrafian)Silver Contributor…

Filmed at the 2017 EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Leanne Harling of Imperial College in London, UK, moderates a discussion on the future of coronary revascularization with David Taggart...

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On the Pooling and Subgrouping of Data From Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Trials: A Call to Circumspection

March 28, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Freemantle and colleagues discuss evidence evaluating myocardial revascularization strategies, focusing in particular on conclusions that can and cannot be drawn from subgroup analyses. The authors detail the benefits and limitations...

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Last Nail in the Coffin for PCI in Stable Angina?

March 5, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A few months after its publication, the ORBITA trial results do not seem to have filtered adequately to cardiac multidisciplinary teams worldwide.

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Mortality After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Versus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Stenting for Coronary Artery Disease: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Patient Data

February 23, 2018 | Ruben Osnabrugge

In this patient level meta-analysis of 11 randomised trials, the authors compare PCI using stents with CABG. In total, almost 12,000 randomised patients were included. They found that at a...

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Functional Survival: Alive and Better

January 8, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A very brief editorial on frailty as a risk factor. In the time of weighing transcatheter interventions versus variable access surgical options, quantifying this physiological concept is of major importance...

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