In patients presenting with ACS and multivessel disease, when do you favor immediate versus delayed complete revascularization?
If delayed complete revascularization is favored, would you consider staged PCI during that same admission or PCI outpatient?
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My approach is to defer the PCI to a few weeks (as outpatient) as long as the patient is asymptomatic and does not have a critical lesion (i.e. greater than 90% stenosis in the proximal LAD, LCX or RCA).
I have been very consistent with this approach and I recall one patient who came back wit...
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at Heart And Sleep Clinics Of America The above answer makes absolute sense.
at Southeast Heart And Vascular At Dexter I agree.
So we are all sitting here answering this question with years of training and experience, and patients are somehow going to magically know the medical issues and cardiac issues to make an informed decision? Is this decision based on financial considerations? Do what your training, experience, and st...
While several trials have shown the long-term benefit of complete revascularization after STEMI in hemodynamically stable patients, The MULTISTARS AMI trial addressed this very question. Over 800 hemodynamically stable patients with STEMI and multivessel CAD were randomized to immediate multivessel ...
The above answer makes absolute sense.
I agree.