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Monday, 7 July 2014

CABG or PCI for CAD?

Recent years have seen an ongoing debate as to whether heart surgery using coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or the non-surgical procedure of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most appropriate revascularisation strategy for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common form of cardiovascular disease. During PCI, a cardiologist feeds a deflated balloon or other device on a catheter from the inguinal femoral artery or...