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Myocardial Viability and Long-Term Outcomes in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Submitted by

Aristotle Protopapas

Source

Source Name: The New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1807365?query=TOC

Author(s)

Julio A. Panza, Alicia M. Ellis, Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, Thomas A. Holly, Daniel S. Berman, Jae K. Oh, Gerald M. Pohost, George Sopko, Lukasz Chrzanowski, Daniel B. Mark, Tomasz Kukulski, Liliana E. Favaloro, Gerald Maurer, Pedro S. Farsky, Ru-San Tan, Federico M. Asch, Eric J. Velazquez, Jean L. Rouleau, Kerry L. Lee, Robert O. Bonow

A robust RCT that denies association of nuclear CT-defined myocardial viability and long-term benefit from surgical coronary revascularisation. It is worth following the discussion this manuscript is certain to generate..