Great article, even the fleas know that the stents are no good long term. This is interesting, even a benefit for CABG in double vessel disease. stents for CAD are dead in the water.
CABG will always be the gold standard.
"interventional" cardiology will be reduced to putting in pacers and a few stents here and there soon, since dx caths will be replaced by CT/MR angio, and educated patients and their responsible physicians will begin to demand CABG. maybe if they are lucky, some family doc will send them a half-dead nursing home patient to do an aortic valvuloplasty on so they can feed their families.
in some ways, the interventional cardiologists are very similar to ER docs- just do a procedure because you "can", then dump them back out of the cath lab for some poor non-interventional cards guy to follow, or more likely a vascular surgeon to fix their screw-ups from hematomas, etc.
