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Would you recommend percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to a 60 year old man with single vessel disease and silent RCA ischemia and normal LVEF by perfusion scan?
Aggressive medical therapy only.
Aggressive medical therapy with follow-up perfusion scans.
PCI with bare metal stents (BMS) in addition to medical therapy.
PCI with drug eluting stents (DES) in addition to medical therapy.
Need additional trial data in this patient population.
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SIS Conference 2008
SIS 2008 Evening Symposium:
Drug Eluting Stents: Beyond the Trials
 
Thursday, July 10th 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The W Hotel

Symposium Directors:
Mark Reisman, MD, and William A. Gray, MD
5:30 PM Left Main Coronary Artery Stenting
S. Chiu Wong, MD
5:50 PM Multi-vessel Stenting
Peter Casterella, MD
6:10 PM When can Plavix be Stopped Safely? What's on the Horizon?
John J. Young, MD
6:30 PM When do we Cross Over to Bypass Surgery: Is there such a thing as too many stents?
John L. Petersen, Jr., MD
6:50 PM The New Look of Open Heart Surgery
Glenn Barnhart, MD
7:10 PM Future DES Technologies
Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD
7:30 PM Panel Discussion
Podium: Mark Reisman, MD
Panel: Glenn Barnhart, MD, Maurice Buchbinder, MD, Peter Casterella, MD, Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, John L Petersen, Jr., MD, S. Chiu Wong, MD, William A. Gray, MD , and John J. Young, MD
8:00 PM Adjourn
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