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http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32714-9/fulltext

In patients with medically treated angina and severe coronary stenosis, PCI did not increase exercise time by more than the effect of a placebo procedure. The efficacy of invasive procedures can be assessed with a placebo control, as is standard for pharmacotherapy.

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Newtwo said:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32714-9/fulltext

In patients with medically treated angina and severe coronary stenosis, PCI did not increase exercise time by more than the effect of a placebo procedure. The efficacy of invasive procedures can be assessed with a placebo control, as is standard for pharmacotherapy.

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Doesn’t seem too ground breaking given the COURAGE trial, but the fact they did a sham procedure at least increases the validity of what was likely already known. Some interventionalist point to target therapy ie FAME but FAME 2 wasn’t super convincing....
 
No more yachts for the heart doctors?
If they want to make money they gotta stay up all night like us fools. Assuming most stemis come in overnight
 
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yeah but what if i PCI 5 different stents 5 different times to the same artery?!?!? That must help something, like my kids' trust fund.
 
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dchz said:
yeah but what if i PCI 5 different stents 5 different times to the same artery?!?!? That must help something, like my kids' trust fund.
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One of the hospitals I rotated through as an intern had a notoriously aggressive interventional cardiologist. He would pull that full metal jacket crap all the time - stenting multi vessel disease, left mains, you name it. The CT surgeons came to dislike him so much that they ended up naming that tiny 30g de-airing needle after him ‘cuz it was “Just a little prick.”
 
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SaltyDog said:
One of the hospitals I rotated through as an intern had a notoriously aggressive interventional cardiologist. He would pull that full metal jacket crap all the time - stunting multi vessel disease, left mains, you name it. The CT surgeons came to dislike him so much that they ended up naming that tiny 30g de-airing needle after him ‘cuz it was “Just a little prick.”
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God what a *****
 
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