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Patients with angina or angina equivalent symptoms who:
- - No longer respond to optimum medical therapy
- Restrict activities to avoid symptoms
- Are unwilling to undergo additional invasive revascularization procedures
- Have LV dysfunction (EF<40%), ischemic cardiomyopathy
- Have co-morbid conditions that increase the risk of revascularization procedures
- - diabetes
- heart failure
- pulmonary disease
- renal dysfunction
- Are considered inoperable or at high risk of operative/interventional complications
- Have microvascular angina (Cardiac Syndrome X)
- Heart failure patients in a euvolemic state with:
- - Ischemic heart failure (e.g. CAD, prior MI)
- Co-morbid conditions that increase the risk of complications of revascularization procedures
- Diabetic patients known to be at greater risk for post-procedural complications
- Elderly patients at high risk for morbidity/mortality from PCI/CABG
