Noninvasive Stents as Good as Surgery for Triple-Vessel Disease

Noninvasive Stents as Good as Surgery for Triple-Vessel Disease

Source: Medscape

Advances in PCI over the past decade mean the procedure can now approximate results only previously achieved with open-heart bypass surgery, new data show.

CHICAGO — Patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease who underwent a less-invasive stent procedure fared just as well as those who underwent open-heart bypass surgery after 5 years, the FAME 3 trial shows.
The results are in marked contrast to … [3447 chars]

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