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Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) was first described by Bourgon in 1812, but the term “Ectasia”was coined by Bjork in 1966. Markis et al. proposed the following classification system for CAE. Type I: diffuse CAE involving two ormore vessels (Fig.1), Type II: diffusely involving one vessel and localized ectasia involving another, Type III: diffusely involving one vessel only, Type IV: localized or segmental ectasia only. Optimal Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) of true ectatic segment is difficult. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a good treatment option for obstructive CAE. To our knowledge no prospective studies are available to compare the outcome of variousmanagement strategies and hence we conducted such study.