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How to deal with an aging population whilst facing increasing health care costs and decreasing resources for an optimal health care management, will be the decisive question in the upcoming years. Prospective trials and registries have shown comparable survival rates and increased quality of life, for patients treated with intervention or surgery. Subsequently, overall invasive procedures, either PCI or CABG-procedure, show advantages over medical therapy. Among older adults both options increasingly provide better results regarding short term mortality and especially longterm mortality. Which of these alternatives will be the most appropriate one for an individual patient, remains the most challenging question in this context.
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Rittger, H. (2015). CABG Versus PCI in Elderly Patients. In: Rittger, H. (eds) Interventional Cardiology in the Elderly. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21142-8_7
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