How often have you heard that from a patient? This question has been posed to me numerous times over the course of the past twenty years. Sometimes the more you know, the harder it becomes to answer the question.

Back in the early days of my cath lab career, the answer was relatively easy; with single lesion/vessel disease, go ahead, stick in a balloon. We all knew that if the disease was more complex, if it involved multiple vessels, that coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) wasn't necessarily a four-letter word. In those early days of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTC