Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting for Severe Coronary Artery Disease

CABG remains the standard of care for patients with three-vessel or left main coronary
artery disease, since the use of CABG, as compared with PCI, resulted in lower rates of
the combined end point of major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular events at 1 year.


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