Ethical Consideration on Insufficiency of Percutaneous CoronaryIntervention in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI) can effectively restore reperfusion of ischemic myocardium in patients with coronary artery disease.But currently PCI treatment is just available for a small proportion of the patients with coronary artery disease,so there was an insufficiency of PCI in patients with coronary artery disease.From the perspective of ethics,the reasons for the phenomenon and some feasible strategies for the problem are also analyzed in this paper.