Comparison of the clinical efficacy of coronary artery bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty or stenting of coronary arteries by bare-metal stents

This literature review examines the main studies comparing the immediate and long-term results of coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary angioplasty (transluminal balloon angioplasty, stenting of coronary arteries by bare-metal stents) in patients with coronary heart disease. With the beginning of the XXI century the era of transluminal balloon angioplasty and bare-metal stents ended and the age of drug-coated stents began. Studies of this age have not only proved the effectiveness and safety of x-ray endovascular surgery techniques, highlighting it as an independent direction of revascularization of the coronary bed along with cardiac surgery, but also changed the cardiac surgery practice of treatment of these patients.