Erschienen in:
05.04.2022 | Editorial
Image fusion: the beauty of the truth from the inside and out
verfasst von:
Samia Massalha, MD, Zohar Keidar, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 6/2022
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Excerpt
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is one of the leading causes for morbidity and mortality in the last decades, without a significant change in its rate over time. Coronary artery revascularization by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is currently considered the gold standard procedure for the diagnosis of IHD and is a common method of definitive? treatment in selected patients. Therefore, the main question and dilemma in this devastating disease is whether “to re-vascularize or not to re-vascularize?”. Moreover, if revascularization is considered, which vessel, or vessels should be treated. Numerous large scale randomized multi center studies aimed at investigating the management of IHD and the treatment strategy, whether with optimal medical therapy alone or together with interventional procedure, and the effect on patients’ outcome.
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