“We often talk about the hard, irreversible end points of death, stroke, and MI. These end points do not have the same value as the nuisance of going back for repeat revascularization,” said Dr. Serruys, professor of interventional cardiology at the Thorax Center at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The 1-year rate of stent thrombosis or graft occlusion was also virtually identical, 3.3% with PCI and 3.4% with CABG.
The registry data collected on the nonrandomizable patients who entered SYNTAX showed a similar pattern of results, Dr. Serruys said.
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