**8. Quality of life after PCI with DES or CABG**

**Figure 6.** years follow up in Syntax study, demonstrate all cause death/CVA/MI up to 4 years

360 Artery Bypass

**Figure 7.** years follow up in Syntax study, demonstrate all cause death up to 4 years

Among patients with three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease who were suitable candidates for either PCI using DES or CABG, both strategies resulted in significant relief from angina and improvements in overall health status over the first year of follow-up. At both 6 and 12 months, there was a small but significant reduction in angina frequency with CABG as compared with PCI in the overall population. These symptomatic benefits of CABG were counterbalanced by the more rapid recovery and improved short-term health status achieved with PCI. [23]
