Cardiac Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

• CABG and PCI
  • Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

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• PCI- For Stable Coronary Artery Disease
  • COURAGE- PCI vs Medical Therapy
  • Routine PCI not always cost-effective.
  • From the ASEANZ 2009 meeting

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• PCI- For Unstable Coronary Artery Disease
  • To be added

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• PCI vs CABG for multi-vessel disease
  • To be added

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ASEANZ 2009

Session on the benefits of revascularisation

At this session the data on benefits of re-vascularisation for coronary disease was reviewed.

The lack of benefit, in terms of reduction of myocardial infarction or death, of percutaneous intervention for stable coronary disease was confirmed.

In Australia, more than 50% of the public health funding is spend on cardiology, it has possible that restrictions will be imposed to particularly for percutaneous intervention to rein in these costs.