Coronary revascularization with PCI or CABG surgery results in comparable clinical outcomes at 10 years in patients with left main coronary artery disease and low-to-intermediate anatomic complexity, ...

The 5-year outcomes of the SYNTAX trial confirm that CABG surgery remains a superior revascularization strategy to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the prespecified subgroup of patients ...

For patients with unprotected left main disease, the relative safety of revascularization with drug-eluting stents (DES) compared with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery depends on the ...

The 3-year results of the SYNTAX trial, according to data presented by Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD, suggested that percutaneous coronary intervention is a reasonable alternative to CABG for patients ...

Compared with the classic SYNTAX score, the functional SYNTAX score decreased the number of higher-risk patients and better discriminated risk for adverse events in patients with multivessel coronary ...

October 11, 2011 (Lisbon, Portugal) — Four-year data from the SYNTAX trial show for the first time a divergence in death rates between the patients who were treated with bypass surgery and those who ...

August 29, 2011 (Paris, France) — A large registry comparing three-year outcomes in patients with three-vessel disease treated with PCI or CABG may renew discussions over the best revascularization ...