New randomized trial results suggest routine functional testing provided no advantage on clinical outcomes over standard care among high-risk patients after intervention, suggesting 'less is more.' ...

The original findings showed, in a general cohort of PCI patients with high-risk anatomical features or clinical characteristics, that stress testing had no impact on 2-year outcomes compared with ...

Routine Functional Testing or Standard Care in High-Risk Patients after PCI. 2022-09-08. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMdo006715. Save. Permissions. For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at ...

Source Reference: Park D-W, et al "Routine functional testing or standard care in high-risk patients after PCI" N Engl J Med 2022; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2208335. Secondary Source.

Although these guidelines counsel against routine functional testing after PCI, he added, they are not based on prospective data, but are rather "authoritative consensus data that are probably ...