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Complete Versus Incomplete Myocardial Revascularization

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Complete myocardial revascularization (CR) is the complete alleviation of coronary obstruction burden whether by coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). It is an appealing concept, yet several issues have emerged as to whether or not it should be a therapeutic goal. The current chapter will review the definition of CR and incomplete revascularization (IR), potential pitfalls, as well as the clinical evidence in CABG, PCI and the treatment of acute coronary syndromes.

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    Diego Arroyo MD, Mathieu Stadelmann MD, Serban Puricel MD & Stéphane Pierre Cook MD

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Arroyo, D., Stadelmann, M., Puricel, S., Cook, S.P. (2016). Complete Versus Incomplete Myocardial Revascularization. In: Ţintoiu, I., Underwood, M., Cook, S., Kitabata, H., Abbas, A. (eds) Coronary Graft Failure. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26515-5_5

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