title: [Coronary intervention - which indications are controversial?].
abstract: Actually, the further development of surgical and interventional techniques enables the treatment of complex coronary artery disease of severely ill patients. Due to this development there is a growing spectrum of possible indications for the interventional technique. Since SYNTAX trial, the individual risk stratification and discussion of possible strategies in interdisciplinar meetings is of utmost importance again. Risk stratification should contain patients history, as well as objective findings like extent of coronary artery disease, left ventricular function, pathological stress tests and patients comorbidities. Today, controversial indications up until a short time ago were possible indications for interventional techniques like demonstrated in recent trials and registries. The most discussed controversial indications were interventions at multivessel-disease with drug-eluting stents (DES), left-main stem and chronic total occlusions.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik I, Kardiologie, Pulmologie, Internistische Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Rostock, Rostock.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Akin
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Nienaber
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kische
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rehders
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ince
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D000075202:Contraindications; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization / Q000379:methods*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D015607:Stents