%0 Journal Article %T Percutaneous coronary intervention equates to placebo procedure in stable angina? %A Hai-Long Dai %A Xue-Feng Guang %A Zhi-Cheng Jing %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2018 %R 10.21037/jtd.2018.11.36 %X A study published in the international journal the Lancet found that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) did not improve exercise capacity and symptoms compared with a placebo procedure in patients with medically treated angina and severe coronary stenosis (1). This is a landmark rigorous study, which is the first placebo-controlled trial of PCI for stable angina. However, there are still some limitations, this trial should be interpreted with caution %U http://jtd.amegroups.com/article/view/25444/html