Volume 11, Number 6, November-December 2004

Recent advances in surgery and percutaneous intervention for multi-vessel ischaemic heart disease
Controversy continues to surround the choice between surgical or percutaneous intervention in treating multi-vessel ischaemic heart disease (IHD), despite an ever-expanding evidence base. Advances in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) such as drug-eluting stents have resulted in PCI mounting an increasing challenge to the ‘gold standard’ of coronary artery by-pass grafting (CABG) but the surgical approach is defending its position with advances such as off-pump CABG (OPCABG). Here Professor David Taggart and Dr Julian Gunn debate the issue.

Br J Cardiol 2004;11:AIC100-AIC102.

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