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Post PCI follow up
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Post PCI follow up
Post PCI follow up
According to AHA guidelines, routine periodic stress testing of asymptomatic patients after PCI without specific clinical indications should not be performed.[1] However, there has been a conflicting evidence on benefits of coronary angiography versus clinical follow up to detect major complications such as restenosis and its impact on survival outcome.[2][3] In the recent ReACT trial 2016, it is demonstrated that there is no difference in clinical benefit when coronary angiography is compared to regular clinical follow up after PCI. Study results demonstrated that there was increased incidence of coronary revascularization with the corornary angiography after one year following PCI but there was no difference in the primary endpoint which included composite of death, MI, stroke, or emergency hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome or heart failure when compared to regular clinical follow up after 5 years.
References
References
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