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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

…coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus, left ventricular dysfunction, peripheral vascular disease and other manifestations of diffuse atherosclerosis. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass…

🟠 SYNTAX Score

…system designed to assess the complexity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and guide the choice between percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting…

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusions: Indications and Outcomes

…than 70%, and are an important reason that patients are referred for coronary artery bypass grafting rather than percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). A CTO may…

Indications and contraindications for myocardial perfusion imaging

…Evaluating the success of revascularization : Myocardial perfusion imaging can assess effectiveness of procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)…

Sudden cardiac arrest: Case 3

CPR Sex : Male Age : 62 years History : Coronary bypass grafting; history of arrhythmias. Medications : beta blockers ECG 1 . Sinus rhythm interrupted by ventricular tachycardia (VT…

Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction After PCI and CABG

…Periprocedural myocardial infarction (MI) is myocardial necrosis temporally related to coronary revascularization. It may follow percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)…

Refractory Angina: Options When Standard Therapy Fails

…settings: Obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) that cannot be controlled despite escalation of antianginal medical therapy, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), or percutaneous coronary intervention…

Acute Limb Ischaemia: Recognition and Urgent Management

…states or iatrogenic vascular injury. Acute occlusion may also occur in an artery with established collateral circulation, particularly an occluded bypass graft; in such cases…

Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents: Evolution, Evidence and Stent Choice

…predominant device used during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). They evolved from balloon angioplasty and bare metal stents (BMS) in response to restenosis caused principally by…

Introduction to exercise stress testing (treadmill test, exercise ECG)

…to assessment of symptoms after coronary artery bypass surgery. Traditionally, the most common indication for exercise stress testing has been the diagnostic evaluation of coronary…

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