The trial’s new health status analysis gives even more reason to consider CABG the preferred revascularization strategy for patients with anatomically complex three-vessel or left main disease.
Choosing Between CABG and PCI: What Current Evidence Suggests
Incomplete revascularization is common with PCI, and most studies suggest it is associated with a worse prognosis. Yet quantification of the extent and complexity of residual atherosclerosis after PCI was not performed until a score for assessing residual stenosis was developed in an afterstudy of the SYNTAX trial.