A 50-year-old male patient arrives in the emergency departmentcomplaining of severe chest pain. He is taken to the cardiac cathlab for a coronary angiogram and left ventriculogram. Thecardiologist discovers a lesion in the left main coronary arterybranch and orders an immediate CABG.

1. Could the cardiologist perform an angioplasty to repair thelesion?

2. Assuming that the CABG is successful, what is the patient’spostoperative prognosis?

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