Five-Year Outcomes after PCI or CABG for Left Main Coronary Disease

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 381; no. 19; pp. 1820 - 1830
• Main Authors: Stone, Gregg W, Kappetein, A. Pieter, Sabik, Joseph F, Pocock, Stuart J, Morice, Marie-Claude, Puskas, John, Kandzari, David E, Karmpaliotis, Dimitri, Brown, W. Morris, Lembo, Nicholas J, Banning, Adrian, Merkely, Béla, Horkay, Ferenc, Boonstra, Piet W, van Boven, Ad J, Ungi, Imre, Bogáts, Gabor, Mansour, Samer, Noiseux, Nicolas, Sabaté, Manel, Pomar, Jose, Hickey, Mark, Gershlick, Anthony, Buszman, Pawel E, Bochenek, Andrzej, Schampaert, Erick, Pagé, Pierre, Modolo, Rodrigo, Gregson, John, Simonton, Charles A, Mehran, Roxana, Kosmidou, Ioanna, Généreux, Philippe, Crowley, Aaron, Dressler, Ovidiu, Serruys, Patrick W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 07.11.2019
• Subjects: Aged; Biomarkers; Cardiovascular disease; Cerebral infarction; Chromium; Cobalt; Coronary artery; Coronary Artery Bypass; Coronary Artery Disease - mortality; Coronary Artery Disease - surgery; Coronary Artery Disease - therapy; Coronary vessels; Death; Drug delivery; Drug-Eluting Stents; Everolimus - administration & dosage; Female; Heart attacks; Heart diseases; Heart surgery; Humans; Implants; Inhibitor drugs; Ischemia; Laboratories; Male; Middle Aged; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology; Myocardial Ischemia - therapy; Odds Ratio; Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; Stents; Stroke; Stroke - epidemiology
• ISSN: 0028-4793; 1533-4406
• DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1909406

In a randomized trial, 1905 patients with left main coronary artery disease were assigned to either percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG). At 5 years, the rates of the composite of death, stroke, or myocardial infarction were not significantly different between the two groups.