Journal article
Effect of PCI on Long-Term Survival in Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) relieves angina in patients with stable ischemic heart disease, but clinical trials have not shown that it improves survival. Between June 1999 and January 2004, we randomly assigned 2287 patients with stable ischemic heart disease to an initial management strategy of optimal medical therapy alone (medical-therapy group) or optimal medical therapy plus PCI (PCI group) and did not find a …
Authors
Sedlis SP; Hartigan PM; Teo KK; Maron DJ; Spertus JA; Mancini GBJ; Kostuk W; Chaitman BR; Berman D; Lorin JD
Journal
New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 373, No. 20, pp. 1937–1946
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Date
November 12, 2015
DOI
10.1056/nejmoa1505532
ISSN
0028-4793