Below you'll find a list of all posts from November 5, 2012
SYNTAX was an 1800-patient trial randomizing patients with left main coronary disease and/or three-vessel disease to either CABG or PCI using the Taxus drug-eluting stent (DES). Findings In patients with severe, multi-vessel coronary disease, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) continues as the standard of care of revascularization. Death and MI rates did become significantly greater in the PCI group after …
The Future Revascularization Evaluation in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Optimal Management of Multivessel Disease (FREEDOM) study enrolled 1,900 patients over a 5-year period from 2005 through 2010. Contemporary PCI and CABG techniques and currently recommended ancillary medical therapies were examined to determine whether CABG or PCI with drug-eluting stents are the superior approach to revascularization in patients with diabetes and …