Chronic chest pain may not need surgery

By ABC7
Researchers discovered that drugs may be as good as artery-opening stents for many patients.

At least one-third of angioplasties are done on people not in imminent danger of a heart attack.

The study finds that those people responded well to a combination of drugs. The study results are in the New England Journal of Medicine.

 

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