Medical management, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and CABG surgery are all viable therapeutic strategies for coronary disease. The choice between these methods is made largely on the ...

The ASCERT data set showed a long term prognostic advantage of CABG over PCI that was independent of different subgroups. This advantage was also evident among patients that had propensity scores ...

[1] Nonrandomized studies first suggested that mechanical reperfusion of occluded coronary arteries by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery ...

There are hints that the 10-year benefit seen in STICHES, the earlier trial, might be the result of inferior medical therapy.

C. Michael Gibson speaks with Gregg Stone about EXCEL: 5-Year Outcomes From a Randomized Trial of PCI vs. CABG in Patients With Left Main Coronary Artery Disease. Receive the the latest news, research ...