Table 9. Patients with the highest potential for benefiting from cardiac interventions.

Symptomatic coronary artery disease of difficult clinical management

Coronary artery disease and high-risk findings on functional testing

Coronary artery disease and high-risk anatomical findings, such as severe obstruction of the left main coronary artery or of the anterior descending artery proximal third

Symptomatic or asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis with reduced LVEF

Mitral regurgitation in FC III/IV and recent progression, with recent drop in LVEF, or in services with established programs for percutaneous treatment of mitral regurgitation with mitral valve clipping

FC: functional class; LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction.