Guidelines for elective percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with stable coronary artery disease (JCS 2011) published in 2012: Digest version

摘要

In patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD), coronary revascularization is performed to improve long-term prognosis, prevent myocardial infarction and unstable angina, and improve the quality of life (QOL) by reducing anginal symptoms.It is desirable that interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons discuss to decide how to perform coronary revascularization in patients with severe stable CAD (i.e., patients with left main disease, patients with multivessel disease involving the proximal left anterior descending [LAD] artery, especially patients with multivessel disease associated with cardiac dysfunction, and diabetic patients with multivessel disease) before proposing treatment options to the patients, and that the patients should decide their treatment options by themselves.