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The Discussion Continues as the EXCEL Authors Respond to EACTS's Withdrawal of Support of the LMS Chapter of the EACTS/ESC Revascularization Guidelines

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Submitted by

Joel Dunning

Source

Source Name: TCTMD

Source URL: https://www.tctmd.com/news/excel-investigators-respond-data-suppression-claims-d…

Author(s)

Anthony Gershlick, Roxana Mehran, Stuart Pocock, Patrick Serruys, Joseph Sabik III, and Gregg Stone

Following the withdrawal of the support of EACTS for the left main stem chapter of the EACTS/ESC Chapter of the revascularisation guidelines following the BBC Newsnight documentary of this, and the withdrawal of Professor David Taggart as an author of the EXCEL trial published in the NEJM, the EXCEL trial authors have published a very robust defence of their trial that was ten years in the creation and conduct.

Find the EACTS statement here:

https://www.eacts.org/eacts-responds-to-bbc-newsnights-investigation-on-the-excel-trial/

Go straight to the response document from the EXCEL trial here:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/prod.tctmd.com/public/2019-12/Response%20final.pdf