title: [Indications for percutaneous myocardial revascularization].
abstract: Indications and timing of myocardial revascularization procedures are discussed based on the case of a 78-year-old woman suffering from effort angina due to three-vessel coronary artery disease with normal left ventricular function. At present, atherosclerotic patients have a relatively long history of their disease, so that physicians should organize therapeutic strategies resulting from a right trade-off between guidelines of international scientific societies and the peculiar clinical requirements of the individual patient in the particular stage of his/her disease. This kind of tailored therapy may result from a multidisciplinary approach (heart team), which should involve many specialists as comorbidities and frailty of the patients are numerous and significant.
authors.affiliation: S.C. Cardiologia, A.O. Ospedale di Treviglio-Caravaggio, Treviglio. paolo_sganzerla@ospedale.treviglio.bg.it
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sganzerla
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Centonze
authors.forename: Emanuela
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tavasci
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization / Q000379:methods