Cardiovascular Business: High-Risk Patients Ineligible for Bypass Surgery See 'Profound Improvements' After PCI

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with significant short-term improvements in high-risk patients with complex coronary artery disease (CAD) who are ineligible for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), according to a new analysis published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

“Patients with left main and/or multivessel CAD at prohibitive surgical risk represent the confluence of complex coexisting illness frailty, and complex anatomy and present an increasingly common clinical dilemma,” wrote first author Adam Salisbury, MD, an interventional cardiologist with Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, and colleagues. “Considering the absent representation of these individuals in prior trials, there are few data to inform the development of guideline recommendations for treatment of these patients.”

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