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In patients with multi-vessel heart disease who have had a heart attack, immediate treatment with stents in all diseased arteries was found to be as safe and effective at one year of follow-up as staged treatment, according to findings from the first large, randomized trial to address this question that is being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology. In staged treatment, the blocked artery that caused the he...

There was a higher rate of MI in the staged group, which might reflect operators misjudging the culprit lesion.

Approach may prevent second heart attacks compared to staged approach

Immediate complete revascularization during the index procedure might become the new treatment paradigm in patients with ACS and multivessel disease, results of the BIOVASC trial suggest.