Chirurgie versus angioplastie des artères coronaires

Revascularization techniques such as coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass surgery play a growing role in the management of coronary artery disease. Angioplasty is the treatment of choice for single coronary lesions while surgery remains the best approach for the revascularization of multivessel disease. There are some exceptions to this rule, however. Bypass surgery may be recommended for the revascularisation of proximal left anterior descending lesions and, of course, for isolated left main stenosis. On the opposite, coronary angioplasty and stenting is used more frequently in the treatment of multivessel lesions amenable to this technique. Choice of either method of revascularization is pragmatic, based on clinical, anatomical and physiological considerations and organized in the setting of a medicosurgical collaboration.