ESC GUIDELINES 2013 ESC guidelines on the management of stable coronary artery disease The Task Force on the management of stable coronary artery disease of the European Society of Cardiology Task Force Members: Gilles Montalescot * (Chairperson) (France), Udo Sechtem * (Chairperson) (Germany), Stephan Achenbach (Germany), Felicita Andreotti (Italy), Chris Arden (UK), Andrzej Budaj (Poland), Raffaele Bugiardini (Italy), Filippo Crea (Italy), Thomas Cuisset (France), Carlo Di Mario (UK), J. Rafael Ferreira (Portugal), Bernard J. Gersh (USA), Anselm K. Gitt (Germany), Jean-Sebastien Hulot (France), Nikolaus Marx (Germany), Lionel H. Opie (South Africa), Matthias Pfisterer (Switzerland), Eva Prescott (Denmark), Frank Ruschitzka (Switzerland), Manel Sabate ´ (Spain), Roxy Senior (UK), David Paul Taggart (UK), Ernst E. van der Wall (Netherlands), Christiaan J.M. Vrints (Belgium). ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG): Jose Luis Zamorano (Chairperson) (Spain), Stephan Achenbach (Germany), Helmut Baumgartner (Germany), Jeroen J. Bax (Netherlands), He ´ ctor Bueno (Spain), Veronica Dean (France), Christi Deaton (UK), Cetin Erol (Turkey), Robert Fagard (Belgium), Roberto Ferrari (Italy), David Hasdai (Israel), Arno W. Hoes (Netherlands), Paulus Kirchhof (Germany/UK), Juhani Knuuti (Finland), Philippe Kolh (Belgium), Patrizio Lancellotti (Belgium), Ales Linhart (Czech Republic), Petros Nihoyannopoulos (UK), Massimo F. Piepoli (Italy), Piotr Ponikowski (Poland), Per Anton Sirnes (Norway), Juan Luis Tamargo (Spain), Michal Tendera (Poland), Adam Torbicki (Poland), William Wijns (Belgium), Stephan Windecker (Switzerland). Document Reviewers: Juhani Knuuti (CPG Review Coordinator) (Finland), Marco Valgimigli (Review Coordinator) (Italy), He ´ ctor Bueno (Spain), Marc J. Claeys (Belgium), Norbert Donner-Banzhoff (Germany), Cetin Erol (Turkey), Herbert Frank (Austria), Christian Funck-Brentano (France), Oliver Gaemperli (Switzerland), Jose ´ R. Gonzalez-Juanatey (Spain), Michalis Hamilos (Greece), David Hasdai (Israel), Steen Husted (Denmark), Stefan K. James (Sweden), Kari Kervinen (Finland), Philippe Kolh (Belgium), Steen Dalby Kristensen (Denmark), Patrizio Lancellotti (Belgium), Aldo Pietro Maggioni (Italy), Massimo F. Piepoli (Italy), Axel R. Pries (Germany), * Corresponding authors. The two chairmen contributed equally to the documents. Chairman, France: Professor Gilles Montalescot, Institut de Cardiologie, Pitie-Salpetriere University Hospital, Bureau 2-236, 47-83 Boulevard de l’Hopital, 75013 Paris, France. Tel: +33 1 42 16 30 06, Fax: +33 1 42 16 29 31. Email: gilles.montalescot@psl.aphp.fr. Chairman, Germany: Professor Udo Sechtem, Abteilung fu ¨r Kardiologie, Robert Bosch Krankenhaus, Auerbachstr. 110, DE-70376 Stuttgart, Germany. Tel: +49 711 8101 3456, Fax: +49 711 8101 3795, Email: udo.sechtem@rbk.de Entities having participated in the development of this document: ESC Associations: Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA), European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR), European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), Heart Failure Association (HFA) ESC Working Groups: Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, Cardiovascular Surgery, Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation, Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT, Thrombosis, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance ESC Councils: Cardiology Practice, Primary Cardiovascular Care The content of these European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines has been published for personal and educational use only. No commercial use is authorized. No part of the ESC Guidelines may be translated or reproduced in any form without written permission from the ESC. Permission can be obtained upon submission of a written request to Oxford University Press, the publisher of the European Heart Journal and the party authorized to handle such permissions on behalf of the ESC. Disclaimer. The ESC Guidelines represent the views of the ESC and were arrived at after careful consideration of the available evidence at the time they were written. Health profes- sionals are encouraged to take them fully into account when exercising their clinical judgement. The Guidelines do not, however, override the individual responsibility of health profes- sionals to make appropriate decisions in the circumstances of the individual patients, in consultation with that patient and where appropriate and necessary the patient’s guardian or carer. It is also the health professional’s responsibility to verify the rules and regulations applicable to drugs and devices at the time of prescription. & The European Society of Cardiology 2013. All rights reserved. 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