Imperial College London
Portrait Picture

DrRashaAl-Lamee

Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute

Clinical Reader in Cardiovascular Science
 
 
 
//

Contact

 

r.al-lamee13

 
 
//

Location

 

Block B Hammersmith HospitalHammersmith Campus

//

Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Al-Lamee:2019:10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312755,
author = {Al-Lamee, RK and Nowbar, AN and Francis, DP},
doi = {10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312755},
journal = {Heart},
pages = {11--19},
title = {Percutaneous coronary intervention for stable coronary artery disease},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312755},
volume = {105},
year = {2019}
}
Download

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB  - The adverse consequences of stable coronary artery disease (CAD) are death, myocardial infarction (MI) and angina. Trials in stable CAD show that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) does not reduce mortality. PCI does appear to reduce spontaneous MI rates but at the expense of causing some periprocedural MI. Therefore, the main purpose of PCI is to relieve angina. Indeed, patients and physicians often choose PCI rather than first attempting to control symptoms with anti-anginal medications as recommended by guidelines. Nevertheless, it is unclear how effective PCI is at relieving angina. This is because, whereas anti-anginal medications are universally required to be tested against placebo, there is no such requirement for procedural interventions such as PCI. The first placebo-controlled trial of PCI showed a surprisingly small effect size. This may be because it is overly simplistic to assume that the presence of a stenosis and inducible ischaemia in a patient means that the clinical chest pain they report is caused by ischaemia. In this article, we review the evidence base and argue that if we as a medical specialty wish to lead the science of procedures for symptom control, we should recognise the special merit of placebo-controlled experiments.
AU  - Al-Lamee,RK
AU  - Nowbar,AN
AU  - Francis,DP
DO  - 10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312755
EP  - 19
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1355-6037
SP  - 11
TI  - Percutaneous coronary intervention for stable coronary artery disease
T2  - Heart
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312755
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30242142
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/64144
VL  - 105
ER  -
Download