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Review
. 2015 Feb 16;3(2):163-70.
doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v3.i2.163.

Conservative strategy for treatment of stable coronary artery disease

Paulo Cury Rezende  1 , Thiago Luis Scudeler  1 , Leandro Menezes Alves da Costa  1 , Whady Hueb  1
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Conservative strategy for treatment of stable coronary artery disease

Paulo Cury Rezende et al. World J Clin Cases. .

Abstract

Patients with coronary artery disease vary widely in terms of prognosis, which is mainly dependent on ventricular function. In relation to the major outcomes of death and myocardial infarction, it is not clear in the literature if an invasive strategy of myocardial revascularization is superior to a conservative strategy of optimized medical therapy. Moreover, with the exception of patients with left main coronary disease, this similarity in prognosis also occurs in different subgroups of patients.

Keywords: Angina pectoris; Coronary angioplasty; Coronary artery disease; Disease-free survival; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial revascularization; Prognosis.

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