Joshua Cohen, Andrew D. Michaels. Is it time for elective left main percutaneous coronary inter-vention to become 'main stream'?[J]. Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2006, 3(1): 57-58.
Citation: Joshua Cohen, Andrew D. Michaels. Is it time for elective left main percutaneous coronary inter-vention to become 'main stream'?[J]. Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, 2006, 3(1): 57-58.

Is it time for elective left main percutaneous coronary inter-vention to become 'main stream'?

  • Left main (LM) stenting is considered by many to be one of the last frontiers of interventional cardiology. Begin-ning with the VA cooperative study published in 1976 demon-strating a mortality benefit for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), ' the standard of care for treat-ment of left main coronary artery disease has been surgical. The most recent 2005 update of the ACC/AHA/SCAI Practice Guidelines on PCI2 again notes that "CABG using IMA graft-ing is the 'gold standard' for treatment of unprotected left main disease and has proven benefit on long-term outcomes."
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