Espinoza-Hernández JD

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I have read the article that was recently published on New England Journal of Medicine by Fearon et al. It is a multicenter, international, noninferiority trial, in which patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease were randomly assigned to undergo Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) or Fractional Flow Reserve Guided (FFR-guided) Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) with current-generation zotarolimus-eluting stents. The primary end point was the occurrence within 1-year of a major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular event, defined as death from any cause, myocardial infarction, stroke, or repeat revascularization. Noninferiority of FFR-guided PCI to CABG was prespecified as an upper limit of less than 1.65 for the 95% confidence interval of the hazard ratio. Secondary end points included a composite of death, myocardial infarction, or stroke; safety was also assessed.

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