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Treatments are designed to make people feel better or live longer. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is effective at reducing angina in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease and at reducing mortality in patients who have acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation and in those who have high-risk acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation.¹ Such successes have often been extrapolated in support of more widespread use of PCI in patients with stable coronary artery disease in hopes of reducing subsequent cardiac events.

With the increasing availability of noninvasive imaging of coronary artery disease, asymptomatic patients are often referred for PCI. But . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center, Leon Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York (J.S.H.); and Centre Hospitalier Bichat–Claude Bernard, Université Paris VII–Denis Diderot, Paris (P.G.S.).

This article (10.1056/NEJMe078036) was published at www.nejm.org on March 26, 2007.

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