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Impact of ESC/EACS Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularization on the activity of percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass graft surgery for stable coronary artery disease

Friday, February 28, 2014

Submitted by

Stuart Head

Source

Source Name: Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Source URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23402690

Author(s)

Martin Yates, Gopal Soppa, Oswaldo Valencia, Sion Jones, Sami Firoozi, Marjan Jahangiri

Yates and coauthors evaluated the implementation of Heart Team discussions for patients with complex coronary artery disease, and determined whether the 2010 ESC/EACTS guideline recommendations changed clinical practice in this regards. Unfortunately, Heart Team discussions were infrequent pre- and post-guideline publication (9% vs 17%).