Much Ado About Nothing? CABG or PCI for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

Correspondence to: Jay Giri, MD, MPH, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, 3400 Civic Center Blvd, South Tower 11-105, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Email Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (J.G.). Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, & Evaluative Research Center, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (J.G.). Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University in St

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