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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 3-year results of the SYNTAX trial have been published in the European Heart Journal. The findings, which largely confirm the 1-year follow-up data, demonstrate that CABG surgery is the treatment ...

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 ...