#132 Does PCI Save Lives in Heart Failure and CAD? Beyond Journal Club on the REVIVED Trial
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
The Effects of Stents on Heart Failure Exacerbations
After about three and a half years, the patients who got stents did not have any differences in mortality or heart failure exacerbations than medical therapy alone. And it doesn't really matter how you slice that down; everything basically showed no difference between putting in stents or just treating people with medicines. Ischemia cemented that story in stable ischemic heart disease. Even patients with a more extensive CAD burden and very abnormal stress tests don't have their lives saved by putting in stent.
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