EACTS May Withdraw Support for European Guidelines for Left Main Treatment After a BBC Investigation Into the EXCEL Trial

Following the withdrawal of Professor Taggart’s name from the author list of the EXCEL trial, the BBC in the UK have filmed a full exposé of some of the background to this decision. Secretary General of EACTS, Dominic Pagano, has stated that if the allegations are true, then perhaps support should be withdrawn for the current guidelines that PCI is equivalent to bypass grafting. 

It looks like the published results of this trial in The New England Journal of Medicine are unravelling and either this paper will need to be withdrawn and re-published, or extensive modifications must be made. Let us know what you think after reading this article.