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A clinical vignette of a 65-year-old man with stable coronary artery disease was presented to poll readers on their preferred management strategy.
This article presents reader polling results on the management of a clinical vignette involving a patient with stable coronary artery disease.
Reader poll exposes practice variation in stable CAD; leaves open optimal strategy pending higher-level evidence.
In late October, we presented the case of a patient with stable coronary artery disease in Clinical Decisions,1 an interactive feature designed to assess how readers would manage a clinical problem for which there may be more than one appropriate treatment. Our patient was a 65-year-old man with hypertension, obesity, and type 2 diabetes who presented with a 2-week history of exertional angina. He underwent an exercise-tolerance test on a treadmill, along with myocardial perfusion imaging, which showed a fixed anterior defect and a reversible anterolateral defect, both of moderate size. His subsequent cardiac catheterization revealed an occluded first diagonal . . .
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Cheng et al. (2007) studied Stable coronary artery disease. A clinical vignette of a 65-year-old man with stable coronary artery disease was presented to poll readers on their preferred management strategy.
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