Contemporary hard clinical outcomes are comparable after CABG and PCI for patients with isolated proximal LAD disease, according to a retrospective study published in the December 30, 2014, issue of ...

Aug. 22, 2002 — Minimally invasive bypass surgery was better than stenting for a high-grade proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis, according to the results of a randomized ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New 7-year data demonstrate similar long-term safety and effectiveness after PCI with sirolimus-eluting stents ...

June 16, 2009 (Leipzig, Germany) — A small randomized study comparing minimally invasive coronary artery bypass surgery (MIDCAB) with PCI using sirolimus-eluting stents suggests that both approaches ...

Medical treatment was as effective as surgery for patients with moderate to severe isolated stenosis in the proximal left anterior descending artery who had fractional flow reserve (FFR) of 0.80 or ...

The patient is a 53 year old man, smoker, dyslipidemia presented with post infarction angina and underwent coronary angiogram. He had h/o Anterior Myocardial Infarction 7 days earlier and was ...

Minimally invasive bypass surgery and coronary-artery stenting are both accepted treatments for isolated stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery. We compared the clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The patient was a young woman who previously underwent CABG and presented with refractory angina despite massive ...

A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions suggests that fractional flow reserve (FFR) may be safely used to guide treatment in patients with ...

A 34-year-old woman presented to the hospital after calling the emergency medical service (EMS) due to prolonged constrictive pain in her chest, which had come on suddenly at home. Records showed that ...

Note: ECG = electrocardiography, LAD = left anterior descending artery, STEMI = ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. These cases raise several questions: Are these true syndromes or simply ECG ...