
#132 Does PCI Save Lives in Heart Failure and CAD? Beyond Journal Club on the REVIVED Trial
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Revive Trial and Heart Failure
The Revive Trial was published in the October 13, 2022 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial asked a very simple question: Does putting stents into patients with severe coronary artery disease and a reduced ejection fraction make them live longer or reduce heart failure hospitalizations? This is a great question because I can't tell you the number of times I've taken care of patients with a new drop in ejection fraction. It's a really relevant trial to me because it lives at the intersection of two diseases that I see so frequently, heart failure and coronary artery disease.
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