Current Best Evidence for the Treatment of Left Main Trunk Disease

Magnitude of reduction in all-cause mortality with treatment of coronary artery diseaseTreatments for coronary artery disease (angina and myocardial infarction) emerged in the following order: nitroglycerin in the late 1870s, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in the early 1960s, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the late 1970s, and statins in the late 1980s.CABG was expected to reduce mortality and prevent myocardial infarction from the beginning, and several randomized trials