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01-05-2007 | original article
Troponin T elevation and prognosis after multivessel compared with single-vessel elective percutaneous coronary intervention
Authors:
M. B. Nienhuis, J. P. Ottervanger, H. E. Dambrink, L. D. Dikkeschei, H. Suryapranata, A. W. J. van ’t Hof, J. C. A. Hoorntje, M. J. de Boer, A. T. M. Gosselink, F. Zijlstra
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Netherlands Heart Journal
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Issue 5/2007
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Extract
During the last decade, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been improved.
1 Use of (drug-eluting) stents has decreased the occurrence of restenosis. Furthermore, PCI is now often combined with diagnostic coronary angiography in one procedure.
2,3 Another development is performing multivessel PCI in one session. Although it was not confirmed by a recently published registry,
4 randomised trials have suggested that in most patients with multivessel disease, PCI is comparable to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with regards to mortality and myocardial infarction (MI) in follow-up.
5 Performing more interventions in one procedure may be faster and more convenient than staged procedures. Although one study suggests that this one-session strategy might be more harmful, there are only few data on this issue.
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