welcomes you to the new, improved website!The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the European Society of Cardiology have, for the third time, brought together cardiac surgeons and cardiologists to draft a document on the treatment of coronary heart disease. These guidelines provide new information and recommendations on calculation of the Syntax score, radial access as standard approach for coronary angiography, drug-eluting stents for any percutaneous coronary intervention, preferred surgical myocardial revascularisation if left ventricular ejection fraction is less than 35%, among other updates.
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2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularization
Source: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezy289
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Author(s): Miguel Sousa-Uva, Franz-Josef Neumann, Anders Ahlsson, Fernando Alfonso, Adrian P Banning, Umberto Benedetto, Robert A Byrne, Jean-Philippe Collet, Volkmar Falk, Stuart J Head, Peter Jüni, Adnan Kastrati, Akos Koller, Steen D Kristensen, Josef Niebauer, Dimitrios J Richter, Petar M Seferović, Dirk Sibbing, Giulio G Stefanini, Stephan Windecker, Rashmi Yadav, Michael O Zembala, ESC Scientific Document Group
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Thanks for that Claire, the problem is enforcement of evidence, I see often PCI’s not sanctioned by the guidelines and blatant ignorance of SYNTAX
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