Three-Year Major Clinical Outcomes of Angiography-Guided Single Stenting Technique in Non-Complex Left Main Coronary Artery Diseases.

Three-Year Major Clinical Outcomes of Angiography-Guided Single Stenting Technique in Non-Complex Left Main Coronary Artery Diseases. Int Heart J. 2017 Sep 30;: Authors: Kim YH, Her AY, Rha SW, Choi BG, Shim M, Choi SY, Byun JK, Li H, Kim W, Kang JH, Choi JY, Park EJ, Park SH, Lee S, Na JO, Choi CU, Lim HE, Kim EJ, Park CG, Seo HS, Oh DJ Abstract There is limited long-term comparative clinical outcome data concerning angiography- versus intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) -guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in non-complex left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease treated with the single stenting technique in the drug-eluting stent (DES) era.The aim of this study was to investigate whether angiography-guided stenting is comparable to IVUS-guided stenting during 3-year clinical follow-up periods in patients with non-complex LM disease treated with the single stenting technique.A total of 196 patients treated with either angiography-guided (n = 74) or IVUS-guided (n = 122) PCI were included. The primary outcome was the occurrence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) defined as total death, non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI), target lesion revascularization (TLR), target vessel revascularization (TVR), and non-target vessel revascularization (Non-TVR). To adjust for any potential confounders, propensity score (PS) adjusted analysis was performed.During 3-year follow-up, the PS adjusted Cox-proportional hazard ratio (HR) was n...
Source: International Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Tags: Int Heart J Source Type: research