Principles of Treatment
Therapeutic options for coronary artery disease today are based on three principles:
- 1. Medical treatment - drugs (e.g. cholesterol lowering medications, beta-blockers, nitroglycerin, calcium antagonists, etc.);
- 2. Coronary interventions as angioplasty and coronary stent-implantation;
- 3. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG - coronary artery bypass surgery).
Recent research efforts focus on new angiogenic treatment modalities (angiogenesis) and various (adult) stem cell therapies.
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