Five-Year Outcomes after PCI or CABG for Left Main Coronary Disease
07 November 2019
| Long-term outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with contemporary drug-eluting stents, as compared with coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG), in patients with left main coronary artery disease are not clearly established. | |
| In patients with left main coronary artery disease of low or intermediate anatomical complexity, there was no significant difference between PCI and CABG with respect to the rate of the composite outcome of death, stroke, or myocardial infarction at 5 years. (Funded by Abbott Vascular; EXCEL ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01205776. opens in new tab.) | |
| Author(s) | Source |
| Stone GW, Kappetein P, Sabik JF et al. | November 7, 2019 N Engl J Med 2019; 381:1820-1830 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1909406 |
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