In patients with high-grade stenosis in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are better at 3-year follow-up than after angioplasty, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology for December 4.
In a prospective, randomized comparison trial initiated in 1997, 102 patients underwent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with primary stenting (PCI) or off-pump CABG. All subjects were eligible for either procedure, Dr. Piet W. Boonstra, of University Hospital Groningen in the Netherlands, and colleagues indicate.
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