Tag: EXCEL
EXCEL: PCI inferior to CABG in Bayesian reanalysis
A Bayesian analysis of EXCEL and other randomised controlled trials comparing coronary artery bypass...
Virtual ACC: PRECOMBAT finds PCI as good as CABG at 10 years in left main disease
The longest follow-up to date of patients with left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) has fou...
New England Journal of Medicine to review EXCEL data
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has launched a review into the data from the EXCEL trial,...
BBC Newsnight makes fresh claims about allegedly withheld mortality data in EXCEL
The news programme BBC Newsnight has made further claims that the EXCEL investigators “held back...
JIM 2020: Weigh up early and late events in EXCEL to determine treatment for left main disease
Gregg W Stone (Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, USA) addressed the EXCEL controv...
CABG shows 10-year benefit over PCI in left main patients with high SYNTAX score
Extended 10-year follow-up has demonstrated that in patients with a high SYNTAX score undergoing...
EXCEL may damage relations between interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons
The debate over the results of EXCEL shows no sign of abating, and there seems to be a division ...
EXCEL finds repeat revascularisations following both CABG and PCI lead to increased mortality
A secondary analysis of repeat revascularisation in the EXCEL trial has found that it was associ...
STS says independent analysis of EXCEL is best opportunity to “get it right for patients”
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has issued a statement on the controversy surrounding EXC...
EXCEL: EACTS reaches out to trial investigators to “resolve concerns”, as CRF commissions independent review
The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (EACTS) has issued a statement reaching out...
EXCEL: EACTS explains its decision-making on left-main guidelines, and AATS calls for all data to be published
The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons (EACTS) has published a detailed account of the...
NOBLE finds PCI inferior to CABG at five years in left main disease
Five-year data from the NOBLE trial have confirmed its earlier findings that in patients with un...
EXCEL leadership refute BBC Newsnight claims in 3,500-word document
Gregg Stone (The Zena and Michael A Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mou...
BBC Newsnight investigation of EXCEL prompts EACTS to reject 2018 European recommendations on left main disease
The European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) has withdrawn its support ...
EACTS 2019: Leading cardiothoracic surgeon questions EXCEL trial’s conclusion
Cardiothoracic surgeon David Taggart (Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Oxford, John ...
New-onset atrial fibrillation after CABG significantly increases the risk of death and stroke in left main patients
New data from the EXCEL trial, which found that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was non...
TCT 2016: Different endpoints may have led to different outcomes for left main PCI
Two randomised controlled trials have produced what appears to be conflicting results for how le...
