AI Article Synopsis
- Scientists studied how well stents work for heart patients who have problems in multiple blood vessels, especially in a key area called the left anterior descending artery.
- After 3 years, both groups of patients (those with stents and those who had surgery called bypass grafting) had similar chances of dying, having a stroke, or getting a heart attack.
- However, patients with stents needed to have more follow-up procedures to fix their hearts again compared to those who had bypass surgery.
Article Abstract
The long-term effect of stents in patients with multivessel disease involving the proximal left anterior descending artery was investigated. At 3 years, there was no difference in the combined incidence of death, stroke, and myocardial infarction in either group, but the need for repeat revascularization was more frequent in the group with stenting than in the group with coronary artery bypass grafting.
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