Preferred approach for nonemergency coronary revascularization

Stent placement

• Single-vessel disease
• Most 2-vessel disease (eg, RCA & LCx)

Coronary artery bypass grafting

• 2-vessel disease involving LAD in patients with diabetes mellitus
• 3-vessel disease (ie, LAD, RCA & LCx)
• Most left main artery disease

LAD = left anterior descending artery; LCx = left circumflex artery; RCA = right coronary artery.