{"title":"Angioplasty with drug-eluting stents versus bypass grafting for treatment ofunprotected left main stem disease.","authors":"M. Ramlall, P. Costanzo, A. Ali, J. John","doi":"10.35841/CARDIOLOGY.1.2.31-32","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Medically treated patients with unprotected left main stem (LMS) coronary artery disease have a poor prognosis and early evidence suggests there is a strong survival benefit from surgical revascularization, especially in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction.","PeriodicalId":22442,"journal":{"name":"The Cardiology","volume":"41 1","pages":"31-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Cardiology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.35841/CARDIOLOGY.1.2.31-32","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Medically treated patients with unprotected left main stem (LMS) coronary artery disease have a poor prognosis and early evidence suggests there is a strong survival benefit from surgical revascularization, especially in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction.