Choosing between percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass graft surgery for nondiabetic patients with multivessel disease

Approximately 30–60% of patients with acute coronary syndrome present with multiple significant coronary lesions and patients with multivessel CAD have worse prognosis including significant increase in death or MI when compared with patients with single vessel CAD (1). Similarly, in patients with stable ischemic heart disease, multivessel CAD portends worse prognosis when compared with patients with single vessel CAD (2).